Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America

Less than 20 years after the United States achieved independence, the French colony of Haiti underwent its own revolution, led predominantly by enslaved and formerly enslaved blacks. In Dangerous Neighbors (University of Pennyslvania Press), historian James Alexander Dun analyzes news coverage of the revolution in the United States, particularly in the influential city of Philadelphia, showed how the war led Americans to contemplate their own recent revolution, as well as questions of slavery, race, and citizenship.