The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves; white colonists; and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports -- most notably New Orleans -- bringing with them everything from French opera to voodoo. Alfred N. Hunt discusses the ways these immigrants affected southern agriculture; architecture; language; politics; medicine; religion; and the arts. He also considers how the events in Haiti influenced the American slavery-emancipation debate and spurred developments in black militancy and Pan-Africanism in the United States. By effecting the development of racial ideology in antebellum America; Hunt concludes; the Haitian Revolution was a major contributing factor to the attitudes that led to the Civil War.
#1323916 in Books Louisiana State University Press 2000-05Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 1.33 x 6.36 x 9.39l; #File Name: 0807125598256 pages
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