Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic

Confronting Black Jacobins examines the United States’ reaction to the revolutionary process in the nation that became Haiti and the splitting of the island in 1844, which led to the formation of the Dominican Republic. Gerald Horne ’70 weaves together a disparate array of voices — world leaders and diplomats, slaveholders, white abolitionists, and the freedom fighters he calls Black Jacobins.