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 Introduction

Chapter 1. A United and Valiant People: Black Visions of Haiti at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 2. Ruin Stares Everybody in the Face: The Era of the Indemnity

Chapter 3. Haiti Must Be Acknowledged: The Fight for Haitian Recognition Begins

Chapter 4. The Voices of the People Will Be Heard: Haiti Comes to Washington

Chapter 5. Let Us Leave This Buckra Land for Hayti: The Limits of Black Utopia

Chapter 6. I Will Sink or Swim with My Race: Black Internationalism in the Era of Soulouque

Chapter 7. A Long-Cherished Desire: Haitian Emigration during the U.S. Civil War

Chapter 8. Too Soon to Rejoice?: The Battle for Haitian Recognition in the U.S. Civil War Era

Epilogue: We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti for Being Black

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index