A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo
A Letter from Percival Stockdale to Granville Sharp Esq. Suggested to the Authour [sic], by the Present Insurrection of the Negroes, in the Island of St. Domingo

Author: Percival Stockdale

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781379341291

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T109753 Page 22 signed and dated: Nov.6th, 1791. With a half-title. Durham: printed by L. Pennington. Sold in London, by W. Clarke; Shepperson and Reynolds; T. and J. Egerton; T. Whieldon and J. Butterworth; and T. Vernor, [1791?] xi, [1],28p.; 8°

Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana
Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana

Author: Sandra Courtman

Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 9766371822

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Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana emphasises the significance of the Caribbean in an increasingly globalised social world and draws attention to the contribution that scholarship in Caribbean Studies makes in coming to terms with a multi-cultural heritage. The compilation deliberately ranges in focus across periods, geographies, linguistic divisions and subject matter to present the fruition of significant research projects by 25 researchers from the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Contributors on the Hispanic, Dutch, African, Indian and Anglophone Caribbean juxtaposed with work on the Caribbean diasporas of the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands enrich the text with multiple perspectives.

The Guise of Exceptionalism
The Guise of Exceptionalism

Author: Robert Fatton

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2021-04-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 197882131X

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American exceptionalism -- Exceptionalism and "unthinkability" -- Manifest Destiny and the American occupation of Haiti -- The American occupation and Haiti's exceptionalism -- Imperial exceptionalism at the turn of the 20th century -- Dictatorship, democratization, and exceptionalism -- The diaspora and the transmogrification of exceptionalism -- Identity politics and modern exceptionalism.

Dangerous Neighbors
Dangerous Neighbors

Author: James Alexander Dun

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0812292979

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Dangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through which the French colony of Saint Domingue was destroyed and the independent nation of Haiti emerged. Philadelphians made sense of the news from Saint Domingue with local and national political developments in mind and with the French Revolution and British abolition debates ringing in their ears. In witnessing a French colony experience a revolution of African slaves, they made the colony serve as powerful and persuasive evidence in domestic discussions over the meaning of citizenship, equality of rights, and the fate of slavery. Through extensive use of manuscript sources, newspapers, and printed literature, Dun uncovers the wide range of opinion and debate about events in Saint Domingue in the early republic. By focusing on both the meanings Americans gave to those events and the uses they put them to, he reveals a fluid understanding of the American Revolution and the polity it had produced, one in which various groups were making sense of their new nation in relation to both its own past and a revolution unfolding before them. Zeroing in on Philadelphia—a revolutionary center and an enclave of antislavery activity—Dun collapses the supposed geographic and political boundaries that separated the American republic from the West Indies and Europe.