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  • 5 - Abolitionist Acts

  • Peter Reed, University of Mississippi
  • Book:
    Staging Haiti in Nineteenth-Century America
    Published online:
    18 November 2022
    Print publication:
    01 December 2022, pp 150-178

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the performances of Haitian revolution that could be marshalled from the pro-slavery ridicule of minstrelsy. Abolitionist political performances, ranging from petitions on Haitian recognition to oratorical celebrations of Toussaint Louverture, restaged Haiti’s revolution as a source for their own style of celebrity performance. In the process, abolitionists elevated the Haitian Revolution to iconic historical status while using it as underpinning for their own celebrated oratory.