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In this episode, we look at the impact of the Haitian Revolution. The Republic of Haiti shaped US politics around slavery, heightened tension between North and South, and impacted Black women in often overlooked ways.
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CONTENTS:
01:06 – Intro
01:27 – San Domingue
04:28 – The Louisiana Purchase
05:31 – The Missouri Compromise
06:36 – Southern Slave Codes
08:08 – Ban on the International Slave Trade
09:03 – Domestic Slave Trade and Black Women
11:36 – Question of the Week
SOURCES:
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race & Class. Black women writers series. 1st ed. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, 1983.
Hine, Darlene Clark, et.al., African Americans: A Concise History, 4th ed., combined volume (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education Inc, 2012)
Price, Richard, and Richard Price. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas, 1973. Print.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “Motion in the System: Coffee, Color, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue.” Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 5, no. 3, 1982, pp. 331–388. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40240909. Accessed 23 Dec. 2020.
