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The article discusses the role of colonial security in the abolition of the slave trade. The author comments that abolitionists promoted creolization and amelioration following slave revolts on plantations in British Caribbean colonies. James Long, a farmer in Jamaica, promoted creolization as a way to reduce costs of the sugar trade by eliminating the need to import slaves and reduce the possibility of insurrections, while cleric James Ramsay promoted reforms to slavery and colonial policies. The Haitian Revolution and other slave revolts led to changes in imperial policies and the recruitment of black solders to oppose insurrections. British politician George Canning proposed a motion regarding the settlement of Trinidad that promoted British imperialism and abolitionism.

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The article focuses on the use of dogs as torture and terror mechanism in the colonial networks during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It mentions that dogs were used to hunt black rebels and publicly consumed them as means of presenting white supremacy and domination, and served as a stark warning to the community during the period. It discusses several revolutions linking the employment of Cuban dogs against black combatants including the Haitian Revolution (1791-1803), the Second Maroon War in Jamaica (1795-1796), and the Second Seminole War in Territorial Florida (1835-1842). Additionally, it notes that the use of dogs as mechanism for torture has allegedly recurred to the public in the prison in Abu Ghraib after the U.S.'s conquest of Iraq.

The article discusses the diplomacy of Toussaint Louverture. It examines the roles of Louverture in the Haitian Revolution, on how he attained Haitian independence, as governor of Saint Domingue, and how he sought freedom for slaves. It notes that Louverture was a diplomat who was once a planter and a politician. It analyzes the diplomacy of Louverture based on his foreign policy as a political figure, on his willingness to accept policies at odds with his abolitionist rhetoric, and on his personal desires. It cites the implications created by his foreign policy and collaboration efforts with countries such as France, United States and Great Britain in creating alliances.

This essay presents Haitian Revolution. It offers a history of the academic scholarships and literature in Haiti. The author acknowledges that silence exists in the Haitian history, literature and society. Joel Dreyfuss has also called the country as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere as the result of the silence.

The article focuses on the popular and partisan works of charismatic leader Toussaint Louverture. It states that Louverture joined the French side during the Haitian Revolution. This fact is supported on the evidence that his name was mentioned in British documents in October 1793 when the British found a Negroe commanding the place. Meanwhile, the events occurred during the development of Louverture and the Character of the English are also discussed in the article, including the Leclerc expedition.

This article discusses newspaper publisher Louis Charles Roudanez in context of the influential community of Creoles of Color in 19th-century New Orleans, Louisiana. Noting their high degree of education, commitment to racial equality, and radicalism, it documents Louisiana's Napoleonic heritage. It shows the importance of the Haitian revolution of 1843 in creating the ferment and radicalism of this community, and the central place of Louis Charles Roudanez in that milieu.

This article discusses the launching of "L'Union," the first African American newspaper in the southern United States, in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1862. The founders included Louis Charles Roudanez, who proved to be an important figure in Louisiana Reconstruction. The article shows the influence of the Haitian revolution of 1843 on the U.S., convincing the emperor Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. The article traces Roudanez' support of African American voting rights.

Presents an interview with Professor Gordon Rohleh. According to Rohlehr, writer C. L. R. James was able to see the Haitian Revolution as a powerful and very dynamic narrative. He explains the phase or expression "Afro-Saxon." He comments on the book "Beyond a Boundary" as a piece of sociology of sport or the sociology of art.

Tracing the history of a family across three generations, from enslavement in eighteenth-century West Africa through emancipation during the Haitian Revolution and subsequent resettlement in New Orleans, then France, then Belgium, can shed light on phenomena that are Atlantic in scope. A business letter written in 1899 by the cigar merchant Edouard Tinchant to General Máximo Gómez in Cuba frames an inquiry that opens out onto a family itinerary that spanned the long nineteenth century. Rosalie Vincent's achievement of freedom in the shadow of slavery in Saint-Domingue in 1793-1803 can be seen as linked to her grandson Edouard Tinchant's participation as a delegate in the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1867-68. Together, the experiences of the Vincent/Tinchant family illuminate an Atlantic and Caribbean rights-consciousness that crossed the usual boundaries of language and citizenship. Uncovering these experiences suggests the value of combining the close focus displayed in Sidney Mintz's Worker in the Cane with the Atlantic approach of his later Sweetness and Power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the struggle for freedom and full citizenship in the Caribbean. Background on the Haitian Revolution which is recognized as the third pillar in the making of modern citizenship and freedom; Factors that affect the effort of Caribbean people to fight for universal citizenship; Manifestations of the differential valuing of white and black bodies in the Caribbean; Lessons being taught by the Caribbean history.

Discusses the ideological strains of radical nationalism in Haiti which emerged during the 1946 left-student and black nationalistic movement to overthrow the U.S.-supported dictatorship of President Élie Lescot. Significant role played by the Haitian Revolution in the political rhetoric of various radicals; Details of the revolt led by young radicals in the country; Manifestations of the immediate success of the radical movement in deposing Lescot.

Presents a historical analysis of the Haitian revolution and its impact on the early 19th century Jamaican slave society. Factor which motivated the hysteria and repression of Jamaican planters towards their enslaved Africans; Critical role played by the Haitian revolution in the discourse between Jamaica and the metropolis regarding the efficiency of slave labor and the need for amelioration; Summary of the early 19th century slave rebellions in Jamaica.

Highlights the international scholarly conference about the Haitian Revolution after 200 years in Rhode Island. Organization by the John Carter Brown Library with the help of a committee of scholars; Centers of slave trade in the 18th century; Contention between races.

Highlights the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Haitian Revolution by the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C. Preparations for the event; Origin of the idea for the Festival program with the members of the U.S. Haitian community in solidarity with the people of Haiti; Promotion of the understanding and continuity of contemporary grassroots cultures in the U.S. and abroad by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Offers a look at the Haitian Revolution which represented the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world. Impact of the Haitian model of state formation on colonizers; Social stratification in Haiti after their emancipation from slavery; Religious political leaders who were against slavery; Implication of the plantation system in the middle of the 18th century.

Reconsiders the evolutionary and revolutionary potential of African revolts and conspiracies which peaked with the Haitian Revolution through an appropriately argued historical scenario. Historiography of slavery and slave resistance in Central America; Content description of the book `From Rebellion to Revolution'; Significant historical variables; Leadership maturity among African slave revolutionaries.