Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution. Rather than being about the revolution itself, this collection attempts to show how the events in Haiti served to galvanize African Americans to think about themselves and to act in accordance with their beliefs, and contributes to the study of African Americans in the wider Atlantic World.
Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not on...
Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, this book collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian revolution.
Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, this book collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, ...
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker antislavery community.
In transforming Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, Benezet translated ideas from diverse sources Enlightenment philosophy, African travel narratives, Quakerism, practical life, and the Bible into concrete action. He founded the African...
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Hugue...
