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The Haitian revolution and the early United States : histories, textualities, geographies /

When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in the western hemisphere. The histories of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock (Editor ), Drexler, Michael J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Colección:Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Haiti and the United States, entwined / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael J. Drexler
  • Revolutionary St. Domingue and the emerging Atlantic : paradigm of sovereignity / Carolyn Fick
  • (Mis)reading the Revolution : Philadelphia and "St. Domingo", 1789-1792 / James Alexander Dun
  • "The mischief that awaits us" : revolution, rumor, and serial unrest in the Early Republic / Duncan Faherty
  • "Entirely different from any likeness I ever saw" : aesthetics as counter-memory historiography and the iconography of Toussaint Louverture / Ivy G. Wilson
  • Frederick Douglass, Anténor Firmin, and the making of U.S.-Haitian relations / Laurent Dubois
  • The Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolutioni / David Geggus
  • Republic of medicine : immunology and national identity in the Age of Revolution / Cristobal Silva
  • The occult Atlantic : Franklin, Mesmer, and the Haitian roots of modernity / Kirean M. Murphy
  • In the shadow of Haiti : the Negro Seaman Act, counter-revolutionary St. Domingue, and black emigration / Edlie Wong.
  • The Haytian papers and black labor ideology in the antebellum United States / Colleen C. O'Brien
  • The constitution of Toussaint : another origin of African American literature / Michael J. Drewler and Ed White
  • Haiti and the New-World novel / Gretchen K. Woertendyke
  • Dispossession and cosmopolitan community in Leonora Sansay's Secret history / Siân Silyn Roberts
  • Theatrical rebels and refugees : The triumps of love, the Haitian Revolution, and early American performance tradition / Peter P. Reed
  • The "alpha and omega" of Haitian literature : Baron de Vastey adn the U.S. audience of Haitian political writing, 1807-1825 / Marlene L. Daut
  • Epilogue : two archives and the idea of Haiti / Anthony Bogues.