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001 2015019276
003 DLC
005 20150819081055.0
008 150816s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015019276
020 $a9781583675625 (paperback : alkaline paper)
020 $a9781583675632 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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050 00 $aE183.8.H2$bH67 2016
082 00 $a327.7307294$223
100 1 $aHorne, Gerald.
245 10 $aConfronting Black Jacobins :$bthe U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the origins of the Dominican Republic /$cby Gerald Horne.
263 $a1510
264 1 $aNew York :$bMonthly Review Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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520 2 $a"The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers--France, Great Britain, and Spain--suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti's mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step closer to civil war. Gerald Horne's pathbreaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices--world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aConfronting the rise of Black Jacobins, 1791-1793 -- Confronting Black Jacobins on the march, 1793-1797 -- Confronting the surge of Black Jacobins, 1797-1803 -- Confronting the triumph of Black Jacobins, 1804-1819 -- Hemispheric Africans and Black Jacobins, 1820-1829 -- U.S. Negroes and Black Jacobins, 1830-1839 -- Black Jacobins weakened, 1840-1849 -- Black Jacobins under siege, 1850-1859 -- The U.S. Civil War, the Spanish takeover of the Dominican Republic and U.S. Negro emigrants in Haiti, 1860-1863 -- Haiti to be annexed/Haitians to be re-enslaved? 1863-1870 -- Annex Hispaniola and deport U.S. Negroes there? 1870-1871.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRelations$zHaiti.
651 0 $aHaiti$xRelations$zUnited States.
650 0 $aBlacks$zHaiti$xPolitics and government.
650 0 $aJacobins$zHaiti$xHistory.
651 0 $aHaiti$xHistory$yRevolution, 1791-1804$xInfluence.
651 0 $aDominican Republic$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aHispaniola$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Haitians$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion$xHistory$y19th century.