Virtual Book Talk: "The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters"

"The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters" with Duncan Faherty
Presented on: Thursday, March 28, 2024
American periodicals covered the Haitian revolution from its outbreak in 1791 until well after it ended in 1804, describing it with sentimental and sensationalist undertones that helped shape U.S. literary culture in the early nineteenth century. Yet, scholars have often ignored how early Americans understood their nation as entwined with Haiti. Drawing on his new book, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters (Oxford University Press, January 2024), Duncan Faherty explores this phenomenon and shows how obsessed early American readers were with the seismic force of the Haitian Revolution and its aftershocks in the US domestic sphere. Not just an enigma occasionally deployed by American writers, Haiti was rather the inspiration for new ideas of freedom and resistance in a still-young nation.

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