African Americans and the Haitian revolution : selected essays and historical documents / edited by Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon.

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Other Authors: Jackson, Maurice, 1950-, Bacon, Jacqueline, 1965-
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
Subjects:
African Americans > Race identity > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Black nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Slave rebellions > Haiti.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Influence.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Historiography.
Haiti > History > Revolution, 1791-1804 > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:vii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Fever and fret : the Haitian Revolution and African American responses / Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon
  • Afro-American sailors and the international communication network : the case of Newport Bowers / Julius S. Scott
  • The roots of early Black nationalism : northern African American's invocations of Haiti in the early nineteenth century / Sara C. Fanning
  • The Black Republic : the influence of the Haitian Revolution on northern Black political consciousness, 1816-1862 / Leslie M. Alexander
  • A revolution unexampled in the history of man : the Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, 1827-1829 / Jacqueline Bacon
  • Antebellum African Americans, public commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution : a problem of historical mythmaking / Mitch Kachun
  • American Toussaints : symbol, subversion, and the Black Atlantic tradition in the American Civil War / Matthew J. Clavin
  • The spirit of human brotherhood, the sisterhood of nations, and perfect manhood : Frederick Douglass and the rhetorical significance of the Haitian Revolution / Glen McClish
  • No man could hinder him : remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the history and culture of the African American people / Maurice Jackson
  • The condition and prospects of Hayti / John Browne Russwurm
  • The Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, the first African American newspaper : 1827-1828
  • From A lecture on the Haytien revolutions with a sketch of the character of Toussaint L'Ouverture, delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, for the benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum, February 26, 1841 / James McCune Smith
  • From St. Domingo : its revolutions and its patriots : a lecture delivered before the Metropolitan Athenaeum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854 / William Wells Brown
  • From A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress as demonstrated by historical events of the Haytian Revolution and the subsequent acts of that people since their national independence / James Theodore Holly
  • The Haitian Revolution in resolutions adopted by African American state and regional conventions 1858, 1859, 1865
  • From Men of mark : eminent, progressive, and rising / William J. Simmons
  • From Lecture on Haiti : the Haitian Pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's Fair in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d. 1893 / Frederick Douglass
  • The same / Langston Hughes
  • From A history of pan-African Revolt / C.L.R. James
  • Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison
  • Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China / Paul Robeson.