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Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War : The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution /
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2012]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "The Insurrection of the Blacks in St. Domingo": Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
- PART I. Opening the Civil War of Words
- Chapter 2. "He patterned His Life After the San Domingan": John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Triumph of Violent Abolitionism
- Chapter 3. "Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St. Domingo": Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the Counterrevolution of Secession
- PART II. A Second Haitian Revolution?
- Chapter 4. "Liberty on the Battle-field": Haiti and the Movement to Arm Black Soldiers
- Chapter 5. "Emancipation or Insurrection": Haiti and the End of Slavery in America
- PART III. Nations Within a Nation
- Chapter 6. "Many a Touissant L'Overture Amongst us": Black Identity
- Chapter 7. "A Repetition of San Domingo?": Southern White Identity
- Chapter 8. "Do we want another San Domingo to be repeated in the South?" Northern White Identity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments