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Subject(s)

• Antislavery movements—History—19th century [Browse]
• Political culture—History—19th century [Browse]
• Political refugees—Haiti—History—19th century [Browse]
• Political refugees—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Slave rebellions—History—19th century [Browse]
• America—History—19th century [Browse]
• America—Race relations [Browse]
• France—History—Revolution, 1789-1799—Influence [Browse]
• Haiti—History—Revolution, 1791-1804—Influence [Browse]

Editor

• Geggus, David Patrick [Browse]

Series

• Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world [More in this series]
• The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

Summary note

Fifteen chapters consider the political, economic, ideological, and psychological effect of the Haitian revolution. The chapters discuss influence on slave resistance and the expansion of slavery, as well as the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of Black and white Diasporas. They also show how the Haitian revolution shaped the debates about race and slavery, and inspired plays, novels, and poetry. The contributors include historians and sociologists from North America and Europe. The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence -- from economic to ideological to psychological -- that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels. Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

ISBN

• 1643361139 ((electronic bk.))
• 9781643361130 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1138875590

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