African Americans and the Haitian Revolution

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Introduction Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon Part One: Essays Chapter One: Fever and Fret: Haitian Revolution and African American Responses Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon Chapter Two: Afro-American Sailors and the International Communication Network: Case of Newport Bowers Julius S. Scott Chapter Three: Roots of Early Black Nationalism: Northern African Americans' Invocations of Haiti in the Early Nineteenth Century Sara C. Fanning Chapter Four: The Black Republic: Influence of the Haitian Revolution on Northern Black Political Consciousness, 1816-1862 Leslie M. Alexander Chapter Five: Revolution Unexampled in the History of Man: Haitian Revolution in Freedom's Journal, 1827-1829 Jacqueline Bacon Chapter Six: Antebellum African Americans, Public Commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution: A Problem of Historical Mythmaking Mitch Kachun Chapter Seven: American Toussaints: Symbol, Subversion, and the Black Atlantic Tradition in the American Civil War Matthew J. Clavin Chapter Eight: The Spirit of Human Brotherhood, The Sisterhood of Nations, and Perfect Manhood: Frederick Douglass and the Rhetorical Significance of the Haitian Revolution Glen McClish Chapter Nine: No Man Could Hinder Him: Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the History, Music, Art and Culture of the African American People Maurice Jackson Part Two: Historical Documents The Condition and Prospects of Hayti (1826) John Browne Russwurm Haitian Revolution in Freedom's Journal, the first African American Newspaper (1827-1828) From A Lecture on the Haytien Revolutions With a Sketch of the Character of Toussaint L'Ouverture. Delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, (For the Benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum,) February 26, 1841. James McCune Smith From St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and its Patriots. A Lecture, Delivered before the Metropolitan Athenaeum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854 William Wells Brown From A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government, and Civilized Progress, as Demonstrated by Historical Events of the Haytian Revolution and the Subsequent Acts of that People Since Their National Independence (1857) James Theodore Holly Haitian Revolution in Resolutions Adopted by African American State and Regional Conventions (1858, 1859, 1865) From Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, and Rising (1887) William J. Simmons From Lecture on Haiti. Haitian Pavilion Dedication Ceremonies Delivered at the World's Fair, in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893 Frederick Douglass The Same (1932) Langston Hughes From A History of Pan-African Revolt (1938 [1969]) C. L. R. James Mister Toussan (1941) Ralph Ellison Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China (1954) Paul Robeson Bibliography Contributors