When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on
January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic,
after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution
was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in
the western hemisphere. The histories of Haiti and the early United
States were intimately linked in terms of politics, economics, and
geography, but unlike Haiti, the United States would remain a
slaveholding republic until 1865. While the Haitian Revolution was
a beacon for African Americans and abolitionists in the United
States, it was a terrifying specter for proslavery forces there,
and its effects were profound. In the wake of Haiti's liberation,
the United States saw reconfigurations of its geography,
literature, politics, and racial and economic structures. The
Haitian Revolution and the Early United States explores the
relationship between the dramatic events of the Haitian Revolution
and the development of the early United States. The first section,
"Histories," addresses understandings of the Haitian Revolution in
the developing public sphere of the early United States, from
theories of state sovereignty to events in the street; from the
economic interests of U.S. merchants to disputes in the chambers of
diplomats; and from the flow of rumor and second-hand news of
refugees to the informal communication networks of the enslaved.
The second section, "Geographies," explores the seismic shifts in
the ways the physical territories of the two nations and the
connections between them were imagined, described, inhabited, and
policed as a result of the revolution. The final section,
"Textualities," explores the wide-ranging consequences that reading
and writing about slavery, rebellion, emancipation, and Haiti in
particular had on literary culture in both the United States and
Haiti. With essays from leading and emerging scholars of Haitian
and U.S. history, literature, and cultural studies, The Haitian
Revolution and the Early United States traces the rich terrain of
Haitian-U.S. culture and history in the long nineteenth century.
Contributors: Anthony Bogues, Marlene Daut, Elizabeth Maddock
Dillon, Michael Drexler, Laurent Dubois, James Alexander Dun,
Duncan Faherty, Carolyn Fick, David Geggus, Kieran Murphy, Colleen
O'Brien, Peter P. Reed, Siân Silyn Roberts, Cristobal Silva, Ed
White, Ivy Wilson, Gretchen Woertendyke, Edlie Wong.
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