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Encountering Revolution:

Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic
  • ISBN-13: 9781421405810
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Ashli White
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2012
  • Format: Paperback 280 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders. Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans and mdash;black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery and mdash;pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution. Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The ""New Cape""
2. The Dangers of Philanthropy
3. Republican Refugees?
4. The Contagion of Rebellion
5. ""The Horrors of St. Domingo""—A Reprise
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

""In this timely study, Ashli White offers a concise synthesis of much of this literature and provides a fresh and exciting analysis of Haiti's influence on the early American republic.""

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