Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War : : The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution / / Matthew J. Clavin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Clavin, Matthew J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 10 illus.

At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almos...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. "The Insurrection of the Blacks in St. Domingo": Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
• PART I. Opening the Civil War of Words
• Chapter 2. "He patterned His Life After the San Domingan": John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Triumph of Violent Abolitionism
• Chapter 3. "Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St. Domingo": Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the Counterrevolution of Secession
• PART II. A Second Haitian Revolution?
• Chapter 4. "Liberty on the Battle-field": Haiti and the Movement to Arm Black Soldiers
• Chapter 5. "Emancipation or Insurrection": Haiti and the End of Slavery in America
• PART III. Nations Within a Nation
• Chapter 6. "Many a Touissant L'Overture Amongst us": Black Identity
• Chapter 7. "A Repetition of San Domingo?": Southern White Identity
• Chapter 8. "Do we want another San Domingo to be repeated in the South?" Northern White Identity
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments