Black Republic - African Americans and the Fate of Haiti

Brandon R. Byrd teaches history at Vanderbilt University.

List of contents

Prologue

Introduction. The Ideas of Haiti and Black Internationalism

Chapter 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Quandary of Haiti

Chapter 2. The Reinventions of Haiti After Reconstruction

Chapter 3. The Vexing Inspiration of Haiti in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow

Chapter 4. Haiti, the Negro Problem, and the Transnational Politics of Racial Uplift

Chapter 5. W. E. B. Du Bois, the Occupation, and Radical Black Internationalism

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Brandon R. Byrd is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.

Summary

The Black Republic explores the critical but overlooked place of Haiti in black thought in the post-Civil War era. Following emancipation, African American leaders considered Haiti a singular example of black self-governance whose fate was inextricably linked to that of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination.

Product details

• Authors: Brandon R Byrd, Brandon R. Byrd
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780812251708
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5170-8
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science