Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World

by Randy J. Sparks and David P. Geggus

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570034168
• ISBN13: 9781570034169
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"