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The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 8 Dec 2021 06:30:18
The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, "The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies "
English | ISBN: 0812248198 | 2016 | 432 pages | PDF | 4 MB

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 Haiti and the early United States were intimately linked in terms of politics, economics, and geography, but unlike Haiti, the United States would remain a slaveholding republic until 1865. While the Haitian Revolution was a beacon for African Americans and abolitionists in the United States, it was a terrifying specter for proslavery forces there, and its effects were profound. In the wake of Haiti's liberation, the United States saw reconfigurations of its geography, literature, politics, and racial and economic structures.
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