The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World

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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
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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 wh
Country USA
Brand University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer University of South Carolina Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 3 line art
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781570034169
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of South Carolina Press
Manufacturer	University of South Carolina Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	3 line art
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781570034169
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)

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