Article ID: CBB538973522

Caribbean-Atlantic Discourses of Race, Equality, and Humanity in the Age of Revolution (2019)

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As geopolitical warfare intensified in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, free individuals of African heritage increasingly disputed European ideologies that condemned them as naturally inferior and lacking in humanity. With the onset of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Latin American wars for independence (1810-1825), individuals and groups of African descent circulated their own views. I argue that free Blacks from colonial Saint Domingue, Jamaica, and Cuba employed similar rhetorical strategies across the French, British, and Spanish empires. Their speeches, petitions, and declarations forged distinct Afro-Atlantic counter-discourses that proclaimed their equality and advocated for their human and civil rights.

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Authors & Contributors
Claborn, John
Sparks, Randy J.
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Knight, R. J.
Berney, Barbara
Parker, Traci
Concepts
African Americans
Race
African Americans and science
Slavery and slaves
Civil rights
Environment
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
Caribbean
Southern states (U.S.)
Atlantic world
New Granada (Spanish colony)
North America
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