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Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (Early American Studies)

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Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound affect at the young nation’s domestic politics. That specialize in Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows latest American reactions to the events in which the French colony of Saint Domingue used to be destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of slavery.

Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the big variety of opinion and debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By That specialize in both the meanings Americans gave to those events and the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one by which more than a few groups were making sense of their new nation in the case of both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing in on Philadelphia—a revolutionary center and an enclave of antislavery activity—Dun collapses the supposed geographic and political boundaries that separated the American republic from the West Indies and Europe.

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