Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution

• Main Author: Johnson, Erica R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; Imperialism.; France-History.; Social history.; Latin American History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of France.; Social History.

This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian Revolution. They went to great lengths to advocate for...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Faith in Humanity: Philanthropists in the Colonial Clergy
• Freeing the Mind: Breaking the Chains of Ideological Enslavement
• Revolutionary Instruction: Creating Educational Equality in the Revolutionary French Atlantic
• Liberating Public Opinion: The Press and a Saint-Dominguan Public Sphere
• Brothers in Arms: Racial Equality in the Saint-Dominguan Colonial Forces
• Representatives of Each Race: Abolishing Inequalities in Colonial Politics
• Conclusion: Atlantic Philanthropists in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue.