Philanthropy and Race in the Haitian Revolution

Focuses on a little-known group of primarily white, male, French philanthropists and their efforts to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the Haitiain Revolution
Challenges simplistic notions of the Haitian Revolution that lean too heavily on a purported strict racial divide between black and white
Considers the activities of philanthropists on both sides of the Atlantic to achieve universal human rights, looking beyond to the larger Atlantic abolition movement

Auteur

Erica R. Johnson is Assistant Professor of History at Francis Marion University, USA. She specializes in the French Atlantic world.

Contenu

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.