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Wanted! a Nation!: Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893

Wanted! a Nation!: Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893

Bourhis-Mariotti, Claire
Delogu, C. Jon
Johnson, Ronald

Paperback

Series: Race in the Atlantic World

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0820362700
ISBN13: 9780820362700
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Dec 15 2023
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s), opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World's Fair, thus helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal rights.

By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights.

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