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Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation!
reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well
as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War.
Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black
republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where
full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and
concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black
Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti
is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the
American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s),
opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the
1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to
Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus
helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight
first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal
rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A
Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African
American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an
essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their
identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of
sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of
national American history and contributes to the writing of an
Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights. By
spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents
a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity
and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to
understand how African Americans forged their identity in the
nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A
Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American
history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global
history of the struggle for equal rights.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John
Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that
empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for
people of colour in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the
Dominguan revolutionaries with economic assistance and arms and
munitions; the conflict was also the U.S. Navy's first military
action on behalf of a foreign ally. This cross-cultural cooperation
was of immense and strategic importance as it helped to bring forth
a new nation: Haiti. Diplomacy in Black and White is the first book
on the Adams-Louverture alliance. Historian and former diplomat
Ronald Angelo Johnson details the aspirations of the Americans and
Dominguans-two revolutionary peoples-and how they played
significant roles in a hostile Atlantic world. Remarkably, leaders
of both governments established multiracial relationships amid
environments dominated by slavery and racial hierarchy. And though
U.S.-Dominguan diplomacy did not end slavery in the United States,
it altered Atlantic world discussions of slavery and race well into
the twentieth century. Diplomacy in Black and White reflects the
capacity of leaders from disparate backgrounds to negotiate
political and societal constraints to make lives better for the
groups they represent. Adams and Louverture brought their peoples
to the threshold of a lasting transracial relationship. And their
shared history reveals the impact of decisions made by powerful
people at pivotal moments. But in the end, a permanent alliance
failed to emerge, and instead, the two republics born of revolution
took divergent paths.
Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation!
reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well
as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War.
Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black
republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where
full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and
concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black
Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti
is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the
American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s),
opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the
1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to
Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus
helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight
first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal
rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A
Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African
American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an
essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their
identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of
sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of
national American history and contributes to the writing of an
Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights. By
spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents
a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity
and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to
understand how African Americans forged their identity in the
nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A
Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American
history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global
history of the struggle for equal rights.
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