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
Baker, Robert B.
Hoover, Eddie
Jacobs, Elizabeth A.
Morris-Reich, Amos
Olakanmi, Ololade
Patterson, Andrea
Journals
Canadian Journal of History
Journal of American History
Journal of the National Medical Association
Social History of Medicine
Publishers
The University of North Carolina Press
Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton and Company
University of Toronto
Tulane University
Bloomsbury Academic
Duke University Press
Concepts
African Americans
Civil rights
African Americans and science
Race
Technology and race
Segregation
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Caribbean
Southern states (U.S.)
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
North America
Richmond, Virginia
Institutions
American Red Cross
McDonald's Corporation
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