Haitian connections in the Atlantic World
Subtitle: recognition after revolution
By: Julia Gaffield
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781469625621; 9781469625638
Subjects: Foreign relations; History
Description: "On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: I put fear in the hearts of those who engage in this trade: French efforts to isolate Haiti in the Atlantic World; title: I, leader of a country, treat for my citizens: Haiti and Jamaica after the French defeat; title: Legislators of the Antilles: British regulation of trade with Haiti; title: Aiming a blow at their very vitals: U.S. interdiction on trade with Haiti; title: The "States of Hayti" and the British Empire.