African Americans and the Haitian revolution : selected essays and historical documents
(Book)

Part I: Essays. Fever and fret : the Haitian Revolution and African American responses / Maurice Jackson and Jacqueline Bacon ; Afro-American sailors and the international communication network : the case of Newport Bowers / Julius S. Scott ; The roots of early Black nationalism : northern African American's invocations of Haiti in the early nineteenth century / Sara C. Fanning ; The Black Republic : the influence of the Haitian Revolution on northern Black political consciousness, 1816-1862 / Leslie M. Alexander ; A revolution unexampled in the history of man : the Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, 1827-1829 / Jacqueline Bacon ; Antebellum African Americans, public commemoration, and the Haitian Revolution : a problem of historical mythmaking / Mitch Kachun ; American Toussaints : symbol, subversion, and the Black Atlantic tradition in the American Civil War / Matthew J. Clavin ; The spirit of human brotherhood, the sisterhood of nations, and perfect manhood : Frederick Douglass and the rhetorical significance of the Haitian Revolution / Glen McClish ; No man could hinder him : remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in the history and culture of the African American people / Maurice Jackson --

Part II: Historical documents. The condition and prospects of Hayti / John Browne Russwurm ; The Haitian Revolution in Freedom's journal, the first African American newspaper : 1827-1828 ; From A lecture on the Haytien revolutions with a sketch of the character of Toussaint L'Ouverture, delivered at the Stuyvesant Institute, for the benefit of the Colored Orphan Asylum, February 26, 1841 / James McCune Smith ; From St. Domingo : its revolutions and its patriots : a lecture delivered before the Metropolitan Athenaeum, London, May 16, and at St. Thomas' Church, Philadelphia, December 20, 1854 / William Wells Brown ; From A vindication of the capacity of the Negro race for self-government, and civilized progress as demonstrated by historical events of the Haytian Revolution and the subsequent acts of that people since their national independence / James Theodore Holly ; The Haitian Revolution in resolutions adopted by African American state and regional conventions 1858, 1859, 1865 ; From Men of mark : eminent, progressive, and rising / William J. Simmons ; From Lecture on Haiti : the Haitian Pavilion dedication ceremonies delivered at the World's Fair in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d. 1893 / Frederick Douglass ; The same / Langston Hughes ; From A history of pan-African Revolt / C.L.R. James ; Mister Toussan / Ralph Ellison ; Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China / Paul Robeson.