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Author Horne, Gerald, author.

Title Confronting Black Jacobins : the United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the origins of the Dominican Republic / by Gerald Horne.

Publication Info. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (423 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "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 pathbreaking 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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Confronting the rise of Black Jacobins, 1791-1793 -- Confronting Black Jacobins on the march, 1793-1797 -- Confronting the surge of Black Jacobins, 1797-1803 -- Confronting the triumph of Black Jacobins, 1804-1819 -- Hemispheric Africans and Black Jacobins, 1820-1829 -- U.S. Negroes and Black Jacobins, 1830-1839 -- Black Jacobins weakened, 1840-1849 -- Black Jacobins under siege, 1850-1859 -- The U.S. Civil War, the Spanish takeover of the Dominican Republic, and U.S. Negro emigrants in Haiti, 1860-1863 -- Haiti to be annexed reenslaved? 1863-1870 -- Annex Hispaniola and deport U.S. Negroes there? 1870-1871.
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Subject Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804)
United States -- Relations -- Haiti.
United States.
Relations.
Haiti.
Haiti -- Relations -- United States.
Black people -- Haiti -- Politics and government.
Black people.
Politics and government.
Jacobins -- Haiti -- History.
Jacobins.
History.
Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Influence.
Dominican Republic -- History -- 19th century.
Dominican Republic.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Hispaniola -- History -- 19th century.
Hispaniola.
African Americans -- Relations with Haitians -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Relations with Haitians.
Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Political aspects.
United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
Territorial expansion.
Chronological Term 1791-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Horne, Gerald. Confronting Black Jacobins. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015] 9781583675625 (DLC) 2015019276 (OCoLC)918986500
ISBN 9781583675656 (electronic book)
1583675655 (electronic book)
9781583675625 (paperback alkaline paper)
1583675620 (paperback alkaline paper)
9781583675632 hardcover (alkaline paper)
1583675639 hardcover (alkaline paper)