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The impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic world / edited by David P. Geggus.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina, ©2001.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 261 pages) : maps.
Details
Subject(s)
Antislavery movements
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History
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19th century
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Political culture
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History
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19th century
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Political refugees
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Haiti
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History
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19th century
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Political refugees
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Slave rebellions
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History
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19th century
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America
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History
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19th century
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America
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Race relations
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France
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History
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Revolution, 1789-1799
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Influence
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Haiti
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History
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Revolution, 1791-1804
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Influence
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Editor
Geggus, David Patrick
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Series
Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
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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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