LEADER 05459nam 22006735 450 001 9910779147803321 005 20220318182806.0 010 $a1-283-89001-1 010 $a0-8122-0161-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201611 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104586 035 $a(OCoLC)802049526 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818929 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11482088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818929 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10843720 035 $a(PQKB)10705719 035 $a(DE-B1597)449013 035 $a(OCoLC)979954151 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201611 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441697 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104586 100 $a20190708d2012 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aToussaint Louverture and the American Civil War $ethe promise and peril of a second Haitian Revolution /$fMatthew J. Clavin 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2184-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. "The Insurrection of the Blacks in St. Domingo": Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution --$tPART I. Opening the Civil War of Words --$tChapter 2. "He patterned His Life After the San Domingan": John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Triumph of Violent Abolitionism --$tChapter 3. "Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St. Domingo": Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the Counterrevolution of Secession --$tPART II. A Second Haitian Revolution? --$tChapter 4. "Liberty on the Battle-field": Haiti and the Movement to Arm Black Soldiers --$tChapter 5. "Emancipation or Insurrection": Haiti and the End of Slavery in America --$tPART III. Nations Within a Nation --$tChapter 6. "Many a Touissant L'Overture Amongst us": Black Identity --$tChapter 7. "A Repetition of San Domingo?": Southern White Identity --$tChapter 8. "Do we want another San Domingo to be repeated in the South?" Northern White Identity --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAt 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. 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xCauses 607 $aHaiti$xForeign public opinion, American$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aHaiti$xHistory$yRevolution, 1791-1804$xInfluence 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aWhite people$xRace identity$xHistory 676 $a973.7/11 686 $aNW 8295$2rvk 700 $aClavin$b Matthew J.$01519704 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779147803321 996 $aToussaint Louverture and the American Civil War$93757970 997 $aUNINA