Abstract
ABSTRACTIn 1822, Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer proclaimed emancipation in neighboring Santo Domingo, heralding a new epoch of ‘unification’ in Hispaniola. This article reframes the origins and consequences of this unification by exploring the antislavery revolution that made it possible. Portions of Santo Domingo’s free Afro-descended majority mobilized in favor of immediate abolition as a bulwark against successive (re)enslavement and racialization schemes. Their efforts dovetailed with those of Haitian leaders and refugees from surrounding slaveholding jurisdictions, producing a shared legacy of antislavery thought and action in Santo Domingo that would endure long after the island had fragmented once more.
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