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Book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson

Download or read book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson written by Earl Leslie Griggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson

Download or read book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson written by Earl Leslie Griggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.

Book Henry Christophe   Thomas Clarkson

Download or read book Henry Christophe Thomas Clarkson written by Henri Christophe (King of Haiti) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Crown

Download or read book Black Crown written by Paul Clammer and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a man born enslaved on a plantation triumph over Napoleon’s invading troops and become king of the first free black nation in the Americas? This is the forgotten, remarkable story of Henry Christophe. Christophe fought as a child soldier in the American War of Independence, before serving in the Haitian Revolution as one of Toussaint Louverture’s top generals. Following Haitian independence, Christophe crowned himself King Henry I. His attempts to build a modern black state won the support of leading British abolitionists—but his ambition helped to plunge his country into civil war. Christophe saw himself as an Enlightenment ruler, and his kingdom produced great literary works, epic fortresses and opulent palaces. He was a proud anti-imperialist and fought off French plots against him. Yet the Haitian people chafed under his authoritarian rule. Today, all that remains is Christophe’s mountaintop Citadelle, Haiti’s sole World Heritage site—a monument to a revolutionary black monarchy, in a world of empire and slavery.

Book The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution

Download or read book The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution written by Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Grégoire has been particularly celebrated since 1989, when the French government placed him in the Pantheon as a model of ideals of universalism and human rights. In this beautifully written biography, based on newly discovered and previously overlooked material, we gain access for the first time to the full complexity of Grégoire's intellectual and political universe as well as the compelling nature of his persona. His life offers an extraordinary vantage from which to view large issues in European and world history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and provides provocative insights into many of the prevailing tensions, ideals, and paradoxes of the twenty-first century. Focusing on Grégoire's idea of "regeneration," that people could literally be made anew, Sepinwall argues that revolutionary universalism was more complicated than it appeared. Tracing the Revolution's long-term legacy, she suggests that while it spread concepts of equality and liberation throughout the world, its ideals also helped to justify colonialism and conquest.

Book Henri Christophe and Thomas Clarkson  a Correspondence

Download or read book Henri Christophe and Thomas Clarkson a Correspondence written by Henri Christophe and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1968-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution

Download or read book Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution written by J. R. Oldfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth, comparative study of transatlantic abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson

Download or read book Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson written by Henri Christophe and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haytian Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henri Christophe (King of Haiti)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1816
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Haytian Papers written by Henri Christophe (King of Haiti) and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Confronting Black Jacobins

Download or read book Confronting Black Jacobins written by Gerald Horne and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution also had a profound impact on Haiti’s mainland neighbor, the United States. Inspiring the enslaved and partisans of emancipation while striking terror throughout the Southern slaveocracy, it propelled the fledgling nation one step closer to civil war. Gerald Horne’s path breaking new work explores the complex and often fraught relationship between the United States and the island of Hispaniola. Giving particular attention to the responses of African Americans, Horne surveys the reaction in the United States to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti, the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic, and the failed attempt by the United States to annex both in the 1870s. Drawing upon a rich collection of archival and other primary source materials, Horne deftly weaves together a disparate array of voices—world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he terms Black Jacobins. Horne at once illuminates the tangled conflicts of the colonial powers, the commercial interests and imperial ambitions of U.S. elites, and the brutality and tenacity of the American slaveholding class, while never losing sight of the freedom struggles of Africans both on the island and on the mainland, which sought the fulfillment of the emancipatory promise of 18th century republicanism.

Book The Holy Alliance

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  • Author : Isaac Nakhimovsky
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-28
  • ISBN : 0691195196
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Holy Alliance written by Isaac Nakhimovsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberals The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this post-Napoleonic initiative, explaining why it was embraced at first by many contemporary liberals as the birth of a federal Europe and the dawning of a peaceful and prosperous age of global progress. Examining how the Holy Alliance could figure as both an idea of progress and an emblem of reaction, Nakhimovsky offers a novel vantage point on the history of federative alternatives to the nation state. The result is a clearer understanding of the recurring appeal of such alternatives—and the reasons why the politics of federation has also come to be associated with entrenched resistance to liberalism’s emancipatory aims. Nakhimovsky connects the history of the Holy Alliance with the better-known transatlantic history of eighteenth-century constitutionalism and nineteenth-century efforts to abolish slavery and war. He also shows how the Holy Alliance was integrated into a variety of liberal narratives of progress. From the League of Nations to the Cold War, historical analogies to the Holy Alliance continued to be drawn throughout the twentieth century, and Nakhimovsky maps how some of the fundamental political problems raised by the Holy Alliance have continued to reappear in new forms under new circumstances. Time will tell whether current assessments of contemporary federal systems seem less implausible to future generations than initial liberal expectations of the Holy Alliance do to us today.

Book Jubilee s Experiment

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  • Author : Dexter J. Gabriel
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-04-30
  • ISBN : 1108845509
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book Jubilee s Experiment written by Dexter J. Gabriel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring the success of emancipation in the British West Indies became crucial in the struggle against slavery in antebellum America.

Book As If She Were Free

Download or read book As If She Were Free written by Erica L. Ball and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.

Book A Global History of Anti Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A Global History of Anti Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century written by W. Mulligan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions. This book shows how the international context was essential in shaping the abolition of slavery.

Book Haytian Papers

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  • Author : Prince Sanders
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-04-18
  • ISBN : 1108050530
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Haytian Papers written by Prince Sanders and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents relating to the reign of King Henri Christophe of Haiti, translated by his American adviser and published in 1816.

Book The Works of Thomas De Quincey  Part I Vol 3

Download or read book The Works of Thomas De Quincey Part I Vol 3 written by Grevel Lindop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the first part of a 21-volume set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished material.

Book An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti  Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo

Download or read book An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint Domingo written by Marcus Rainsford and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.