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The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans in the Antebellum South.
Many white people in the South thought Jefferson's neutrality went too far and was equivalent to full-scale relations with Haiti. While such white people ignored oppression, exploitation and atrocities against enslaved Africans by white slave-traders, and by white slave-owners in Haiti and the USA (and indeed, carried out such abuses themselves ...
He published his account in 1920, decrying "the economic corruption, forced labor, press censorship, racial segregation, and wanton violence introduced to Haiti by the U.S. occupation encouraged numerous African Americans to flood the State Department and the offices of Republican Party officials with letters" calling for an end to the abuses ...
In the opposing camp, African American historian W. E. B. Du Bois said that the Haitian Revolution was an economic pressure without which the British parliament would not have accepted abolitionism as readily. [151] Other historians say the Haitian Revolution influenced slave rebellions in the U.S. as well as in British colonies.
A Pro-Slavery Foreign Policy: Haitian-American Relations during the Early Republic (2003) Plummer, Brenda Gayle. Haiti and the United States: The psychological moment (U of Georgia Press, 1992). Renda, Mary A. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism (U of North Carolina Press, 2001). Schmidt, Hans.
Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett (October 16, 1833 – November 13, 1908) was United States Ambassador to Haiti from 1869 to 1877. He was the first African American diplomat and the fourth U.S. ambassador to Haiti since the two countries established relations in 1862. [1] His mother was Pequot. [2]
The War of Knives (French: Guerre des couteaux), also known as the War of the South, was a civil war from June 1799 to July 1800 between the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, a black ex-slave who controlled the north of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti), and his adversary André Rigaud, a mixed-race free person of color who controlled the south. [1]
The French revolutionary government granted citizenship and freedom to free people of color in May 1791, but white planters in Saint-Domingue refused to comply with this decision. This was the catalyst for the 1791 slave rebellion , a key event for the Haitian Revolution with which the new citizens demanded their granted rights.