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We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom

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In We Dream In combination Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that regularly narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was once anchored in a wealthy and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a commonplace commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, regularly well past the achieve of the state. By showing how the island’s political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history throughout the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for working out independence and emancipation all through the Caribbean and the Americas. 
 

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