Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean - Softcover

Hunt, Alfred N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807131970 ISBN 13: 9780807131978

Publisher: LSU Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians -- slaves, white colonists, and free blacks -- fled the upheaval and flooded southern U.S. ports -- most notably New Orleans -- bringing with them everything from French opera to voodoo. Alfred N. Hunt discusses the ways these immigrants affected southern agriculture, architecture, language, politics, medicine, religion, and the arts. He also considers how the events in Haiti influenced the American slavery-emancipation debate and spurred developments in black militancy and Pan-Africanism in the United States. By effecting the development of racial ideology in antebellum America, Hunt concludes, the Haitian Revolution was a major contributing factor to the attitudes that led to the Civil War.

About this title

About the Author:

Alfred N. Hunt is a professor of history at the State University of New York at Purchase.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0807131970
• ISBN 13: 9780807131978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216