Kniha Thomas Jefferson's Haitian Policy Arthur Scherr

Thomas Jefferson's Haitian Policy

Myths and Realities

Autor: Arthur Scherr
Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Vydavatel: Lexington Books
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Among the most controversial aspects of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, indeed of his political caree...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2015
Stránek
726
EAN
9781498512510
ISBN
1498512518
Enbook ID
09241069
Vydavatel
Hmotnost
1168
Rozměry
229 x 154 x 47

Kompletní popis

Among the most controversial aspects of Thomas Jefferson's presidency, indeed of his political career, is his policy toward the country that is now Haiti, then known as St. Domingo. While eschewing substantial research on his Haitian policies, most historians condemn Jefferson as a racist who implemented his anti-African American agenda by plotting with Napoleon to "starve Toussaint," Touissaint Louverture, Haiti's ruler, into submission to the French armies. When the strategy failed, and Haiti became independent in 1804, Jefferson allegedly exerted his efforts to force Congress to impose an embargo on Haiti from 1806-1809. This is the orthodox, mainstream interpretations of Jefferson's Haitian policies today. In a revolutionary revisionist reassessment, Arthur Scherr's Thomas Jefferson's Haitian Policy: Myths and Realities challenges and undermines this interpretation. His extensively researched work reveals that Jefferson was in fact generally favorable to the Haitian Revolution, before and during his presidency, and supportive of its independence. Moreover, during his retirement from the presidency, when no longer burdened with the responsibilities of national consensus-seeking in public office, he went so far as to propose the newborn slaves in the southern United States be emancipated once they reached puberty and sent to Haiti, a scheme which would strengthen the unique, black-ruled West Indian country and gradually eliminate the repulsive powder keg of Southern slavery from US shores.

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