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- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1850–1865
- Introduction
- Part I Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition
- Part II Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation
- Chapter 5 Overhearing the African American Novel, 1850–1865
- Chapter 6 Black Romanticism and the Lyric as the Medium of the Conspiracy
- Chapter 7 Black Newspapers, Novels, and the Racial Geographies of Transnationalism
- Chapter 8 Creoles of Color, Poetry, and the Periodic Press in Union-Occupied New Orleans
- Chapter 9 The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century
- Part III Black Geographies in Transition
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 9 - The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century
from Part II - Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2021
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- African American Literature In Transition
- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology, 1850–1865
- Introduction
- Part I Black Personhood and Citizenship in Transition
- Part II Generic Transitions and Textual Circulation
- Chapter 5 Overhearing the African American Novel, 1850–1865
- Chapter 6 Black Romanticism and the Lyric as the Medium of the Conspiracy
- Chapter 7 Black Newspapers, Novels, and the Racial Geographies of Transnationalism
- Chapter 8 Creoles of Color, Poetry, and the Periodic Press in Union-Occupied New Orleans
- Chapter 9 The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century
- Part III Black Geographies in Transition
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Often Haiti is understood as the central Black revolutionary touchstone for the time, and though Stephen Gilroy Hall examines the ways in which African American writers such as James McCune Smith, William Wells Brown, and George Vashon presented Haiti as “offering instructive lessons about the possibility” of revolution, he also considers the way in which Haiti was activated alongside the American Revolution through the writings of William C. Nell. Importantly, these writers turned to revolutionary pasts as interventions in their historical present when the threat of slavery’s expansion made for what Hall calls “an antislavery war” waged in African American historical writing.
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- African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865 , pp. 217 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021