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Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World - Recognition after Revolution (Paperback)
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Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World - Recognition after Revolution (Paperback)
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On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring
independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's
postrevolutionary period as one during which the international
community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted
a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's
only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors
a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to
its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the
surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation. Gaffield
frames Haitian independence as both a practical and an intellectual
challenge to powerful ideologies of racial hierarchy and slavery,
national sovereignty, and trade practice. Yet that very
independence offered a new arena in which imperial powers competed
for advantages with respect to military strategy, economic
expansion, and international law. In dealing with such concerns,
foreign governments, merchants, abolitionists, and others provided
openings that were seized by early Haitian leaders who were eager
to negotiate new economic and political relationships. Although
full political acceptance was slow to come, economic recognition
was extended by degrees to Haiti - and this had diplomatic
implications. Gaffield's account of Haitian history highlights how
this layered recognition sustained Haitian independence.
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