Matthew J Clavin

Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War

The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution influenced American public culture during the Civil War. It argues that both antislavery and proslavery groups appropriated the symbols of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in their attempts to determine the fate of slavery in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780812221848
• ISBN-10: 0812221842
• Artikelnr.: 33875304

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Clavin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. "The insurrection of the Blacks in St. Domingo": Remembering
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
PART I. OPENING THE CIVIL WAR OF WORDS
Chapter 2. "He patterned his life after the San Domingan": John Brown,
Toussaint Louverture, and the Triumph of Violent Abolitionism
Chapter 3. "Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St.
Domingo": Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the
Counterrevolution of Secession
PART II. A SECOND HAITIAN REVOLUTION?
Chapter 4. "Liberty on the Battle-field": Haiti and the Movement to Arm
Black Soldiers
Chapter 5. "Emancipation or Insurrection": Haiti and the End of Slavery in
America
PART III. NATIONS WITHIN A NATION
Chapter 6. "Many a Touissant L'Overture amongst us": Black Identity
Chapter 7. "A Repetition of San Domingo?": Southern White Identity
Chapter 8. "Do we want another San Domingo to be repeated in the South?"
Northern White Identity
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments