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Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World
Recognition after Revolution
Julia Gaffield
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2015
Pages: 270
Subject: History, Political Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469625638
DESCRIPTION
Gaffield frames Haitian independence as both a practical and an intellectual challenge to powerful ideologies of racial hierarchy and slavery, national sovereignty, and trade practice. Yet that very independence offered a new arena in which imperial powers competed for advantages with respect to military strategy, economic expansion, and international law. In dealing with such concerns, foreign governments, merchants, abolitionists, and others provided openings that were seized by early Haitian leaders who were eager to negotiate new economic and political relationships. Although full political acceptance was slow to come, economic recognition was extended by degrees to Haiti--and this had diplomatic implications. Gaffield's account of Haitian history highlights how this layered recognition sustained Haitian independence.
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