Confronting Black Jacobins - Horne Gerald - University of Houston
Confronting Black Jacobins - Horne Gerald - University of Houston The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. The island…
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Confronting Black Jacobins - Horne Gerald - University of Houston
The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti's mainland neighbor, the United States. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade.
Gerald Horne's path breaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. 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. 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
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