The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States: Histories, Textualities, Geographies

When Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haitian independence on January 1, 1804, Haiti became the second independent republic, after the United States, in the Americas; the Haitian Revolution was the first successful antislavery and anticolonial revolution in the western hemisphere. The histories of Haiti and the early United States were intimately linked in terms of politics, economics, and geography, but unlike Haiti, the United States would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248198
• ISBN13: 9780812248197
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.1"