Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic, Paperback - Gerald Horne

The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence ...

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Kent McFarlandNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 221 x 20Cover type: Paper...

Examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the cultur...

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Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In th...

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Reducere. Explore How the Slaves Freed Themselves in the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that began in 1791 in the French col...

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

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A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

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Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

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