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Book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture  the Negro Patriot of Hayti

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture the Negro Patriot of Hayti written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toussaint L Ouverture

Download or read book Toussaint L Ouverture written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture  the Negro Patriot of Hayti  Etc

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture the Negro Patriot of Hayti Etc written by John Relly BEARD and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Toussaint L ouverture

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  • Author : John Relly Beard
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781021064011
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L ouverture written by John Relly Beard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important historical work tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution and a pivotal figure in the abolition of slavery. The book provides a biography of Louverture and describes the events leading up to the Haitian Revolution, as well as the aftermath of this historic event. The author highlights the significance of Louverture's leadership and the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the wider world. 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture  the Negro Patriot of Hayti

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture the Negro Patriot of Hayti written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Tribute for the Negro

Download or read book A Tribute for the Negro written by Wilson Armistead and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1848 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War

Download or read book Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War written by Matthew J. Clavin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 almost entirely of rebel slaves, defeated all of its rivals and restored peace to the embattled territory. The slave uprising that we now refer to as the Haitian Revolution concluded on January 1, 1804, with the establishment of Haiti, the first "black republic" in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian Revolution cast a long shadow over the Atlantic world. In the United States, according to Matthew J. Clavin, there emerged two competing narratives that vied for the revolution's legacy. One emphasized vengeful African slaves committing unspeakable acts of violence against white men, women, and children. The other was the story of an enslaved people who, under the leadership of Louverture, vanquished their oppressors in an effort to eradicate slavery and build a new nation. Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War examines the significance of these competing narratives in American society on the eve of and during the Civil War. Clavin argues that, at the height of the longstanding conflict between North and South, Louverture and the Haitian Revolution were resonant, polarizing symbols, which antislavery and proslavery groups exploited both to provoke a violent confrontation and to determine the fate of slavery in the United States. In public orations and printed texts, African Americans and their white allies insisted that the Civil War was a second Haitian Revolution, a bloody conflict in which thousands of armed bondmen, "American Toussaints," would redeem the republic by securing the abolition of slavery and proving the equality of the black race. Southern secessionists and northern anti-abolitionists responded by launching a cultural counterrevolution to prevent a second Haitian Revolution from taking place.

Book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Spartacus

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  • Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 0374722161
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Black Spartacus written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize “Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read.” —David A. Bell, The Guardian A new interpretation of the life of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule, while his supporters also believed he communicated with vodou spirits. And for a leader who once summed up his modus operandi with the phrase “Say little but do as much as possible,” he was a prolific and indefatigable correspondent, famous for exhausting the five secretaries he maintained, simultaneously, at the height of his power in the 1790s. Employing groundbreaking archival research and a keen interpretive lens, Sudhir Hazareesingh restores Toussaint to his full complexity in Black Spartacus. At a time when his subject has, variously, been reduced to little more than a one-dimensional icon of liberation or criticized for his personal failings—his white mistresses, his early ownership of slaves, his authoritarianism —Hazareesingh proposes a new conception of Toussaint’s understanding of himself and his role in the Atlantic world of the late eighteenth century. Black Spartacus is a work of both biography and intellectual history, rich with insights into Toussaint’s fundamental hybridity—his ability to unite European, African, and Caribbean traditions in the service of his revolutionary aims. Hazareesingh offers a new and resonant interpretation of Toussaint’s racial politics, showing how he used Enlightenment ideas to argue for the equal dignity of all human beings while simultaneously insisting on his own world-historical importance and the universal pertinence of blackness—a message which chimed particularly powerfully among African Americans. Ultimately, Black Spartacus offers a vigorous argument in favor of “getting back to Toussaint”—a call to take Haiti’s founding father seriously on his own terms, and to honor his role in shaping the postcolonial world to come. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize | Finalist for the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named a best book of the year by the The Economist | Times Literary Supplement | New Statesman

Book Tropics of Haiti

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  • Author : Marlene L. Daut
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2015-07-17
  • ISBN : 1781388806
  • Pages : 706 pages

Download or read book Tropics of Haiti written by Marlene L. Daut and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary history of the Haitian Revolution that explores how scientific ideas about ‘race’ affected 19th-century understandings of the Haitian Revolution and, conversely, how understandings of the Haitian Revolution affected 19th-century scientific ideas about race.

Book The life of Toussaint L Ouverture

Download or read book The life of Toussaint L Ouverture written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Toussaint Louverture

Download or read book Toussaint Louverture written by Madison Smartt Bell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the Western Hemisphere. A mere twelve years later, however, Haitian rebels had defeated the Spanish, British, and French and declared independence after the first—and only—successful slave revolt in history. Much of the success of the revolution must be credited to one man, Toussaint Louverture, a figure about whom surprisingly little is known. In this fascinating biography, Madison Smartt Bell, award-winning author of a trilogy of novels that investigate Haiti’s history, combines a novelist’s passion with a deep knowledge of the historical milieu that produced the man labeled a saint, a martyr, or a clever opportunist who instigated one of the most violent events in modern history. The first biography in English in over sixty years of the man who led the Haitian Revolution, this is an engaging reexamination of the controversial, paradoxical leader.

Book The Freedmen s Book

Download or read book The Freedmen s Book written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colonial System Unveiled

Download or read book The Colonial System Unveiled written by Baron de Vastey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.

Book The Haitian Revolution

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  • Author : Toussaint L'Ouverture
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2019-11-12
  • ISBN : 1788736575
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book The Haitian Revolution written by Toussaint L'Ouverture and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toussaint L’Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L’Ouverture’s profound contribution to the struggle for equality.

Book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture  the Negro Patriot of Hayti

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L Ouverture the Negro Patriot of Hayti written by J. R. Beard and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE life which is described in the following pages has both a permanent interest and a permanent value. But the efforts which are now made to effect the abolition of slavery in the United Sates of America, seem to render the present moment specially fit for the appearance of a memoir of TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE. A hope of affording some aid to the sacred cause of freedom, specially as involved in the extinction of slavery, and in the removal of prejudices on which servitude mainly depends, has induced the author to prepare the present work for the press. If apology for such a publication were required, it might be found in the fact that no detailed life of TOUISSAINT L'OVERTURE is accessible to the English reader, for the only memoir of him which exists in our language has long been out of print. The sources of information on this subject are found chiefly in the French language. To several of these the author acknowledges deep obligation. The tone taken on the subject of negro freedom in Hayti, by recent writers in two French reviews, is partial and unjust. Possibly this may be attributable to a mulatto pen. The blacks have no authors; their cause, consequently, has not yet been pleaded. In the authorities we possess on the subject, either French or mulatto interests, for the most part, predominate. Specially predominant are mulatto interests and prejudices, in the recently published Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, by SAINT REMY, a mulatto: this writer obviously values his caste more than his country or his kind.

Book The Life of Toussaint L ouverture

Download or read book The Life of Toussaint L ouverture written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!