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Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900)
Ronald Ange Johnson
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Hardcover. Series: Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of colour in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic assistance and arms and munitions; the conflict was also the U.S. Navy’s first military action on behalf of a foreign ally. This cross-cultural cooperation was of immense and strategic importance as it helped to bring forth a new nation: Haiti.
Diplomacy in Black and White is the first book on the Adams-Louverture alliance. Historian and former diplomat ... Read more
From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of colour in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic assistance and arms and munitions; the conflict was also the U.S. Navy’s first military action on behalf of a foreign ally. This cross-cultural cooperation was of immense and strategic importance as it helped to bring forth a new nation: Haiti.
Diplomacy in Black and White is the first book on the Adams-Louverture alliance. Historian and former diplomat ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Race in the Atlantic World 1700-1900
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820342122
SKU
V9780820342122
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About Ronald Ange Johnson
Ronald Angelo Johnson is an assistant professor of history at Texas State University, USA. He has served as a U.S. diplomat at embassies in Gabon and Luxembourg, and he has worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
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