Encountering Revolution

preview-18
  • Encountering Revolution Book Detail

  • Author : Ashli White
  • Release Date : 2010-04
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 280
  • ISBN 13 : 0801894158
  • File Size : 43,43 MB

Encountering Revolution by Ashli White PDF Summary

Book Description: Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders. Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans—black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery—pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution. Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Encountering Revolution books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Encountering Revolution

Encountering Revolution

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 9018 Views
DOWNLOAD

Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two

Revolutionary Things

Revolutionary Things

File Size : 52,52 MB
Total View : 237 Views
DOWNLOAD

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary idea

The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy

The Long American Revolution and Its Legacy

File Size : 98,98 MB
Total View : 8144 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book brings together Lester D. Langley’s personal and professional link to the long American Revolution in a narrative that spans more than 150 years and

The Experiment

The Experiment

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 8692 Views
DOWNLOAD

For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have le