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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (The Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World)
David Patrick Geggus (Ed.)
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Hardcover. International scholars explicate such diverse ramifcations of the Haitian revolution as the spawning of slave resistance and the stimulation of slavery's expansion, and the formation of black and white disaporas. The revolution is shown to have embittered debates about race and abolition. Editor(s): Geggus, David Patrick. Series: Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HBJK; HBJM; HBLL; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Series
Carolina Lowcountry & the Atlantic World
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570034169
SKU
V9781570034169
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About David Patrick Geggus (Ed.)
DAVID P. GEGGUS is a professor of history at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a former Guggenheim and National Humanities Center fellow. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and the Caribbean, with a particular focus on the Haitian Revolution. He is the author of Slavery, War and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793-1798 ... Read more
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