Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated
early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young
nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a
representative and an influential vantage point, it follows
contemporary American reactions to the events through which the
French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent
nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from
Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in
mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates
ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a
revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as
powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the
meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of
slavery. Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers,
and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and
debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By
focusing on both the meanings Americans gave to those events and
the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the
American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one in which
various groups were making sense of their new nation in relation to
both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing
in on Philadelphia-a revolutionary center and an enclave of
antislavery activity-Dun collapses the supposed geographic and
political boundaries that separated the American republic from the
West Indies and Europe.
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