Christina Cecelia Davidson

Dominican Crossroads

H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

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Produktbeschreibung

Christina Cecelia Davidson explores the extraordinary and complicated life and career of H. C. C. Astwood, who was a preacher, politician, and the first Black man named US consul to the Dominican Republic in the nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030942
• ISBN-10: 1478030941
• Artikelnr.: 69738596

Autorenporträt

Christina Cecelia Davidson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Terminology  ix
Preface  xiii
Acknowledgments  xxiii
Introduction  1
Part I. Beginnings
1. A Shadowy Past: Henry Astwood and the Transition from Slavery to
Freedom  27
2. A Reconstructed Life: Becoming H.C.C. Astwood in the US-Caribbean
Sphere  53
Part II. Black Political Authority
3. The Other Black Republic: Segregated Statecraft and the Dual Nature of
US-Dominican Diplomacy  85
4. Death and Deceit: Black Political Authority and the Forging of US Moral
Logic Abroad  120
Part III. Social Morality
5. Between Tolerance and Tyranny: Protestant Dominicans, Social Morality,
and the Making of a Liberal Nation  159
6. Leasing Columbus: Holy Relics, Public Ridicule, and the Reconstruction
of Two Americas  195
7. “The Cheekiest Man on Earth”: H.C.C. Astwood and the Politics of White
Moral Exclusivity  228
Conclusion  261
Notes  271
Bibliography  317
Index  337