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Confronting Black Jacobins - The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (Paperback)
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Confronting Black Jacobins - The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (Paperback)
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The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave
revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared
independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain,
and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was
remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti's
mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and
partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the
Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step
closer to civil war. Gerald Horne's path breaking new work explores
the complex and often fraught relationship between the United
States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to
the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in
the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that
became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the
formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the
United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich
collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne
deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices--world leaders
and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom
fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the
tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests
and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and
tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing
sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and
on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory
promise of 18th century republicanism.
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