The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining legitimacy in an Atlantic world dominated by Europeans and the slave trade. The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World explores the multifarious influence - from economic to ideological to psychological - that a revolt on a small Caribbean island had on the continents surrounding it. Fifteen international scholars, including eminent historians David Brion Davis, Seymour Drescher, and Robin Blackburn, explicate such diverse ramifications as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of black and white diasporas. They show how the Haitian Revolution embittered contemporary debates about race and abolition and inspired poetry, plays, and novels. Seeking to disentangle its effects from those of the French Revolution, they demonstrate that its impact was ambiguous, complex, and contradictory.
Author(s): David P. Geggus
Series: The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 280
The Impact of the HAITIAN REVOLUTION in the Atlantic World
CONTENTS
List of Tables, Figures, and Maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: OVERVIEW
Chapter 1 Impact of the French and Haitian Revolutions (DAVID BRION DAVIS)
Chapter2 The Limits of Example (SEYMOUR DRESCHER)
Chapter3 The Force of Example (ROBIN BLACKBURN)
PART TWO: POLITICS
Chapter 4 From Liberalism to Racism: German Historians, Journalists, and the Haitian-Revolution from-the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries (KARIN SCHULLER)
Chapter 5 Bryan Edwards and the Haitian Revolution (OLWYN M. BLOUET)
Chapter6 Puerto Rico’s Creole Patriots and the Slave Trade after the Haitian Revolution (JUAN R. GONZALEZ MENDOZA)
Chapter7 American Political Culture and the French and Haitian Revolutions: Nathaniel Cutting and the Jeffersonian Republicans (SIMON P. NEWMAN)
PART THREE: RESISTANCE
Chapter 8 Charleston’s Rumored Slave Revolt of 1793 (ROBERT ALDERSON)
Chapter 9 The Promise of Revolution: Saint-Domingue and the Struggle for Autonomy in Guadeloupe, 1797-1802 (LAURENT DUBOIS)
Chapter 10 “A Black French General Arrived to Conquer the Island”: Images of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba’s 1812. Aponte ‘Rebellion (MATT. D. CHILDS)
Chapter 11 A Fragmented Majority: Free “Of All Colors,” Indians, and Slaves in Caribbean Colombia During the Haitian Revolution (ALINE HELG)
Chapter 12 Haiti as an Image of Popular Republicanism in Caribbean Colombia: Cartagena Province (1811-I 828) (MARIXA LASSO)
Part Four: REFUGEES
Chapter 13 -Etrangers dans un Pays Etrange: Saint-Domingan Refugees of Color in Philadelphia (SUSAN BRANSON AND LESLIE PATRICK)
Chapter 14 Repercussions of the Haitian Revolution in Louisiana (PAUL LACHANCE)
Chapter 15 The Caradeux and Colonial Memory (DAVID P. GEGGUS)
Epilogue
List of Contributors
Index
