- Additional Authors
- Description
- xix, 268 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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 diktats in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World's Fair, thus helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights"--
- Series Statement
- Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
- Uniform Title
- L'union fait la force. English
- Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
- Alternative Title
- L'union fait la force.
- Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Original title: L'union fait la force : les Noirs américains et Haïti, 1804-1893.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Haiti, the Promised Land? -- Haiti and the "Black Nationality" Project -- The Second Wave of Emigration to Haiti -- Abraham Lincoln's Project for Haiti -- Haiti's Growing Strategic Importance for U.S. Imperialist Ambitions -- Frederick Douglass's Diplomatic Career in Haiti -- Haiti and Frederick Douglass at the Chicago World's Fair -- From Haiti to Chicago, Frederick Douglass and the Renewal of Black American Activism.
- ISBN
- 9780820365893
- 0820365890
- 9780820362700
- 0820362700
- 9780820362717 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780820365558 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023023227
- OCLC
- YBP 2023023227
- Author
Bourhis-Mariotti, Claire, author.
- Title
Wanted! A nation! : Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893 / Claire Bourhis-Mariotti ; translated by C. Jon Delogu ; with a foreword by Ronald Angelo Johnson.
- Publisher
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
1800-1899
- Added Author
Delogu, Christopher Jon, translator.
Johnson, Ronald Angelo, 1970- writer of foreword.
- Translation Of:
Translation of: Bourhis-Mariotti, Claire L'union fait la force Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2016 9782753543478 (OCoLC)939200014
- Other Form:
Online version: Bourhis-Mariotti, Claire Wanted! A nation! Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023] 9780820362717 (DLC) 2023023228