The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
By David P. Geggus.
Description
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 gaini...
ISBN(s)
1570034168, 9781570034169
