The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States.
| Author | Sierra, Luis M. |
| Position | LATIN AMERICA - Book review |
Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, and Michael Drexler, eds. The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Many undergraduate students in global civilization and US history courses do not have a grammar for the Haitian Revolution. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and Michael Drexler s timely edited volume The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States offers a corrective by demonstrating how imbricated these histories, geographies, and stories remain. In this collection, the authors link Haiti's history with early US history. The volume is organized around the three major themes of history, geography, and textualities; this organization enables the reader to think through the ways that the Haitian Revolution and early American histories were and remain entwined.
The "Textualities" section asks readers to engage with a variety of texts that require a rethinking of the role of Haiti in American History. It behooves scholars to reject schematics that place these two textual traditions into discreet categories: here is Haiti and...
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