![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Jacobins, he demonstrates through copious amounts of documentation and research the impact external, international forces had on slave resistance within the “slave-holding republic,” the frightened slave owners’ response to this external threat and the ever-evolving U.S. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, articulates a number of themes throughout his books, primarily the role of external, international powers in the centuries-long struggle led by African Americans for freedom and equality.Ĭonfronting Black Jacobins builds on Horne’s prior work – namely, Negro Comrades of the Crown. In the introduction to his book, Confronting Black Jacobins, Gerald Horne writes that the 1804 Haitian Revolution “was so profound, so important, so stunning, that it may require an entire school of historians to take its true measure.” Arguably, he adds, this revolution – an affront to both slavery and white supremacy, bolstering revolt throughout the slave South – changed the course of history. ![]()
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