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Wanted! A Nation!
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 d...
In Search of Liberty
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the twentieth century.
Pieces of Freedom
The history of racism in America is also the history of ordinary Black Americans who accomplished extraordinary things in their pursuit of freedom. Faced with oppression throughout their journey, they built vibrant communities and lived purposeful lives. Pieces of Freedom: The Emancipation Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis and Meta Warrick Fuller brings that history to life by analyzing the first fifty years of Black freedom through the emancipation sculptures of two nineteenth-century African American sculptors, Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844–1909) and Meta Warrick Fuller (1877–1968). Lewis's and Fuller’s sculptures—and their visual narrative of a people’s strength and humanity in the face of...
Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
American culture maintained a complicated relationship with Haiti from its revolutionary beginnings onward. In this study, Peter P. Reed reveals how Americans embodied and re-enacted their connections to Haiti through a wide array of performance forms. In the wake of Haiti's slave revolts in the 1790s, generations of actors, theatre professionals, spectators, and commentators looked to Haiti as a source of both inspiring freedom and vexing disorder. French colonial refugees, university students, Black theatre stars, blackface minstrels, abolitionists, and even writers such as Herman Melville all reinvented and restaged Haiti in distinctive ways. Reed demonstrates how Haiti's example of Black freedom and national independence helped redefine American popular culture, as actors and audiences repeatedly invoked and suppressed Haiti's revolutionary narratives, characters, and themes. Ultimately, Haiti shaped generations of performances, transforming America's understandings of race, power, freedom, and violence in ways that still reverberate today.
Published by the Author
Publication is an act of power. It brings a piece of writing to the public and identifies its author as a person with an intellect and a voice that matters. Because nineteenth-century Black Americans knew that publication could empower them, and because they faced numerous challenges getting their writing into print or the literary market, many published their own books and pamphlets in order to garner social, political, or economic rewards. In doing so, these authors nurtured a tradition of creativity and critique that has remained largely hidden from view. Bryan Sinche surveys the hidden history of African American self-publication and offers new ways to understand the significance of publication as a creative, reformist, and remunerative project. Full of surprising turns, Sinche’s study is not simply a look at genre or a movement; it is a fundamental reassessment of how print culture allowed Black ideas and stories to be disseminated to a wider reading public and enabled authors to retain financial and editorial control over their own narratives.
We Are American Citizens
We Are American Citizens offers a groundbreaking reexamination of the antebellum national Colored Conventions, demonstrating that these gatherings constituted the first structured civil rights movement in the United States, and examines the emergence of Black transnationalism within this context. Drawing from an extensive archive of convention minutes, press coverage, and writings by Black activists, Bourhis-Mariotti shows how free people of color used these conventions not only to protest racial injustice but to build a collective political identity and formulate strategies to claim their rightful place as American citizens. Indeed, the conventions functioned as collaborative spaces where d...
Le panafricanisme dans un monde globalisé
Cet ouvrage traite des relations du panafricanisme avec le cosmopolitisme et le droit international au travers de la notion de communauté politique panafricaine. Cette dernière interroge quant à la possibilité des peuples africains éparpillés géographiquement et appartenant déjà à des États constitués de transcender leur appartenance nationale pour entrer en association politique. Constatant les limites du droit international dominé par la norme de la souveraineté des États, l’auteur examine les formes politiques et juridiques possibles d’une telle association. Quelle matrice institutionnelle pour un regroupement politique panafricain ? L’entrée en relations de tous les humains, aujourd’hui accomplie par l’effet de la mondialisation, implique cependant que les peuples africains formant communauté politique se projettent vers le cosmopolitisme. Celui-ci doit être pensé en emboîtement des sociétés humaines plurielles dans un dessein du vivre-ensemble universel qui préserve toutefois leurs particularismes.
La colonisation nouvelle
Dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle s'est développée une puissante remise en cause du système colonial hérité des trois siècles ayant suivi les fameuses « grandes découvertes ». Les contestations de ce système portaient notamment sur l'archaïsme du système des compagnies à monopoles et sur l'Exclusif commercial imposé par les différentes métropoles, ainsi que sur l'aspect violent et inhumain de l'esclavage et plus encore de la traite négrière, vivement critiqués par les "philosophes". De ces vives critiques sont nés les fondements théoriques et les tentatives de mise en acte de ce qu'il convient d'appeler la « Colonisation Nouvelle », qui s'étend des années 1770 aux années 1830.
Les grandes dates de l'histoire diplomatique d'Haïti
Ce livre présente une synthèse des grandes dates de l'histoire diplomatique d'Haïti. Chaque fait traité est mis en contexte avec, en conclusion, une liste d'ouvrages, d'articles de presse ou de revues scientifiques, qui permettront d'approfondir le sujet. C'est un ouvrage d'intérêt pour les étudiants, les chercheurs, les diplomates, les hommes politiques et le grand public en quête de savoir. Il permet enfin de compiler les faits mémorables de l'histoire des relations internationales de la République d'Haïti.
