Toussaint's clause [[electronic resource] ] : the founding fathers and the Haitian revolution / / Gordon S. Brown

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779100003321
• Autore: Brown Gordon S. <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-43464-4; 9786613434647; 1-60473-697-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Collana: Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book
• Disciplina: 327.7307294/09/033
• Soggetti: United States Foreign relations 1789-1809; United States Foreign relations Haiti; Haiti Foreign relations United States; Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "An ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-315) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: July 1790 -- St. Domingue -- White cockade, red cockade -- The cost of neutrality -- Trouble with Britain -- Trouble with France -- Toussaint's clause -- Creating a quarantine -- The St. Domingo station -- Jefferson equivocates -- The Leclerc expedition -- St. Domingo and Louisiana -- A risky trade -- The clearance act debate -- The trade suspended -- Embargo and neglect -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged on the seas and in Europe. America watched aghast as its trading partner Haiti, a rich hothouse of sugar plantations and French colonial profit, expl