Fear of a Black Republic

Leslie M. Alexander is an associate professor of history at Arizona State University. She is the author of African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861 and coeditor of Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History.

• Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. A United and Valiant People: Black Visions of Haiti at the Dawn of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 2. Ruin Stares Everybody in the Face: The Era of the IndemnityChapter 3. Haiti Must Be Acknowledged: The Fight for Haitian Recognition BeginsChapter 4. The Voices of the People Will Be Heard: Haiti Comes to WashingtonChapter 5. Let Us Leave This Buckra Land for Hayti: The Limits of Black UtopiaChapter 6. I Will Sink or Swim with My Race: Black Internationalism in the Era of SoulouqueChapter 7. A Long-Cherished Desire: Haitian Emigration during the U.S. Civil WarChapter 8. Too Soon to Rejoice?: The Battle for Haitian Recognition in the U.S. Civil War EraEpilogue: We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti for Being BlackNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"In this clear and impeccably researched volume, historian Leslie M. Alexander explores the imperative role Haiti and the Haitian Revolution played in the growth of Black internationalism, sovereignty and freedom. " --Ms. Magazine “An impressive feat of scholarly research, unremitting in its focus on Black discourses and activities, as recorded in African American serial publications and institutions. The book luminously chronicles the hopes and dreams, the aspirations and yearnings, that United States Black folk invested in the Haitian Revolution and what it wrought, the sovereign state of Haiti.”--Michael O. West, author of From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International since the Age of Revolution "Fear of a Black Republic addresses the scholarly lacuna between histories of the Haitian Revolution and histories of Black internationalism at the turn of the twentieth century." --H-Diplo