The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state
of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the
Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets
to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great
powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in
between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the
French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year
struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial
independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were
gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and
the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the
Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence -- from economic
to ideological to psychological -- that a revolt on a small
Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it.
Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians
David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate
such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and
the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic
frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They
show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates
about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels.
Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French
Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous,
complex, and contradictory.
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