... agent, Douglass provides the address of the office, 221 Washington Street in Boston, for those African Americans who wish to gain “necessary information” about the possibilities of emigrating to Haiti. During 1853–54, when Martin Delany and his supporters were advocating black emigration to the southern...

...After 1804, Haitian leaders were able to take advantage of the uncertainty and ambiguity of the rest of the Atlantic World. While Haiti had to deal with France and their efforts to establish solidarity with other powers, they worked intently to carve out a new economic space for themselves...

...Following the failure of the negotiations between Haitian leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Jamaican governor George Nugent in 1804, the British government did not issue an official statement regarding their relationship with Haiti. Given that Britain was indecisive and inconsistent in coming...

... found unacceptable in 1804. The situation in 1807, however, was drastically different since all of the other important empires and nations in the Atlantic how prohibited trade with Haiti. Christophe Henry Coote Eyre Dessalines Jean Jacques Diplomatic recognition non recognition Férou Laurent Haiti...

...The conclusion of the book focuses on the outcome of the international diplomatic non-recognition and economic recognition and emphasizes the importance of the British Empire in Haiti’s ability to remain independent. The ambiguous status that Haiti occupied for the first two decades...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the present history of Haiti and Jamaica. The book examines the postslavery evolution of these neighboring, once wealthy sugar islands and their place in a world dominated by great powers that alternately neglected and asserted control of them...

...Tensions in Haiti and Jamaica exploded in the middle of the nineteenth century, with simultaneous outbreaks in northern Haiti and the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica. This chapter focuses on these events. The separate crises were connected in the minds of diplomats, foreigners, and local elites...

...This chapter details how a decade of peaceful political relations in Haiti created the opportunity for development in the republic. This peace was challenged by the persistence of conflicts orchestrated by military rivals and powerful foreigners with vested interests in Haitian politics...

...The heightened attention paid to Haiti by imperial powers—and their frequent denigration of the republic—sparked the interest of contemporary Jamaican writers, journalists, and travelers to Haiti. This chapter focuses on their views and prescriptions for both countries, which differed in important...

...This chapter focuses on the three largest and only independent nations of the Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century – Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic – and their vulnerability to and struggles with a new overseas power in the region, the United States. At the time, hard-earned...

... economically and culturally. This chapter explores three such attempts at transformation: Jamaica under Michael Manley, Maurice Bishop and the Grenada Revolution, and Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s first government in Haiti. Unlike the Cuban Revolution, these leaders excited expectations for change within still...

...This chapter analyses Latin American nations’ efforts to create inter-American solidarity against U.S. military occupations in Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic from the 1910s to the 1930s. In their diplomacy, anti-occupation activists from these three nations were joined primarily...

...This chapter examines Langston Hughes’s overlooked archive of photographs and scrapbooks from his 1931 trip to Haiti, arguing that Hughes’s photographic encounter with Haiti is part of the construction of a transnational vision that starts in the Caribbean and moves through the U.S. South...

... active combat, including northern states, islands in the Mississippi River, and even Haiti. Some of these efforts bore a great deal of resemblance to antebellum colonization plans, and, as in those cases, black men and women in the Civil War largely resisted being sent away. Most of the removals were...

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...This chapter brings together the reflections of theorists of the coloniality of power, including Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo, and Louis Sala-Molins. It looks at the French colonial history of Haiti, beginning with the Code Noire (1685) and ending in the early nineteenth century...

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...In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst...

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