Arthur Scherr

Thomas Jefferson's Haitian Policy

Myths and Realities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, in many ways defines the meaning of the United States. This extensively researched work reveals that Jefferson was in fact generally favorable to the Haitian Revolution, before and during his presidency, and supportive of its independence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1035g
• ISBN-13: 9781498512510
• ISBN-10: 1498512518
• Artikelnr.: 42197574

Autorenporträt

Arthur Scherr teaches history at the City University of New York. He has published numerous articles and several books about the history of the early United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Dedication 2 1. Introduction: Jefferson, Historians, and the West Indian
Revolution 3 2. The Adams Administration and Haiti: The Diplomacy of
Ambiguity 4 3. Jeffersonian Ambivalence: Haiti, Africa, Louisiana 5 4.
President Jefferson Formulates his Haitian Policy The Pichon "Interview" 6
5. An Important and Dangerous Colony: Jefferson Confronts the Haitian
Conundrum 7 6. Jefferson's Policy, 1801-1802: Peace with France and
Cautious Support for Louverture 8 7. Jefferson's Administration and the
West Indian Prisoners of War 9 8. Jefferson's Quest for Trade and Empire
Leads to Haiti 10 9. Jefferson Rejects a Haitian Trade Embargo 11 10.
Jefferson and Congress Embargo the Arms Trade to Haiti 12 11. Haiti's Trade
with the United States: A Summary 13 12. Political Origins of the
Democratic-Republican Haitian "Nonembargo: Foreign and Domestic 14 13. The
Penelope Case and the Failure of the Haitian Embargo 15 14. Jeffersonian
Antislavery? The Stillbirth and Death of The Haitian Embargo 16 15. The
Unlikely Panacea: Haiti in Jefferson=s Last Years: Part I 17 16. The
Unlikely Panacea: Haiti=s Role in Jefferson's Last Years: Part II 18 17.
Conclusion 19 Appendix: Louis A. Pichon to Foreign Minister Talleyrand, 8th
Brumaire [Oct. 30], 1801