Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution

Author/Contributor(s):	Gaffield, Julia
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	10/26/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to its relationships with other nations and empires and reveals the surprising limits of the country's supposed isolation"--