African Americans and the Haitian revolution
Subtitle: selected essays and historical documents
By: edited by Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon.
Contributors: Jackson, Maurice, 1950-; Bacon, Jacqueline, 1965-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780415803755; 9780415803762
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 insurrections -- Haiti; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Influence; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Historiography; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fever and fret : the Haitian Revolution and African American responses / Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon; title: Afro-American sailors and the international communication network : the case of Newport Bowers / Julius S. Scott; title: The roots of early Black nationalism : northern African American's invocations of Haiti in the early nineteenth century / Sara C. Fanning; title: The Black Republic : the influence of the Haitian Revolution on northern Black political consciousness, 1816-1862 / Leslie M. Alexander; title: A revolution unexampled in the history of man : the Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, 1827-1829 / Jacqueline Bacon; title: Antebellum African Americans, public commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution : a problem of historical mythmaking / Mitch Kachun; title: American Toussaints : symbol, subversion, and the Black Atlantic tradition in the American Civil War / Matthew J. Clavin; title: The spirit of human brotherhood, the sisterhood of nations, and perfect manhood : Frederick Douglass and the rhetorical significance of the Haitian Revolution / Glen McClish; title: No man could hinder him : remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the history and culture of the African American people / Maurice Jackson; title: The condition and prospects of Hayti / John Browne Russwurm; title: The Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, the first African American newspaper : 1827-1828; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: The Haitian Revolution in resolutions adopted by African American state and regional conventions 1858, 1859, 1865; title: From Men of mark : eminent, progressive, and rising / William J. Simmons; title: From Lecture on Haiti : the Haitian Pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's Fair in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d. 1893 / Frederick Douglass; title: The same / Langston Hughes; title: From A history of pan-African Revolt / C.L.R. James; title: Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison; title: Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China / Paul Robeson.