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The Richmond Enquirer and the Haitian Revolutionunorthodox journalistic voices from the Antebellum South /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Richmond Enquirer and the Haitian Revolutionby Arthur Scherr.
Reminder of title:	unorthodox journalistic voices from the Antebellum South /
Author:	Scherr, Arthur.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	vi, 130 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	American newspapersHistory.
Subject:	HaitiPeriodicals.Economic conditions
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04573-7
ISBN:	9783032045737$q(electronic bk.)

The Richmond Enquirer and the Haitian Revolutionunorthodox journalistic voices from the Antebellum South /
Scherr, Arthur.

The Richmond Enquirer and the Haitian Revolutionunorthodox journalistic voices from the Antebellum South /[electronic resource] :by Arthur Scherr. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - vi, 130 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. The Richmond Enquirer's Influence in Early National Politics -- 2. Thomas Ritchie, the Richmond Enquirer, and Human Enslavement in the South -- 3. The Richmond Enquirer's Early Coverage of the Haitian Revolution -- 4. The Richmond Enquirer Supports Trade with Haiti -- 5. Ritchie's Racism? The Enquirer and Haiti's 1805 Constitution -- 6. The Richmond Enquirer and the Debate over Missouri's Admission to the Union -- 7. The Richmond Enquirer Reports the Haitian Republic's Annexation of Santo Domingo -- 8. The Richmond Enquirer Supports Haiti's Annexation of Santo Domingo -- 9. Ritchie, the Aftermath of Boyer's Consolidation of Power, and the Myth of Obsessive Southern Opposition to the Haitian Revolution -- 10. Conclusion: The Significance of Ritchie's Perspective on the Haitian Revolution -- 11. Epilogue: Beyond Ritchie: The Richmond Enquirer versus the Abolitionist Press.

This book studies the approach Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer took on the Haitian Revolution. It focuses on the paper's coverage of two major events that most historians have overlooked: Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines' massacres of French colonists in 1804 and President Jean-Pierre Boyer's invasion and annexation of Santo Domingo (the present-day Dominican Republic) in 1822 and its aftermath. Using archival evidence, the book shows that the Enquirer was objective and even relatively friendly to the Haitian Revolution. Even in reporting such seemingly egregious acts as the massacre of the white population in 1804 and the invasion and annexation of a militarily weak neighbour eighteen years later, it avoided the use of implicitly or explicitly racist pejoratives toward the Haitian revolutionaries. The book contributes new perspectives on the Haitian Revolution's final stages, particularly on these two important events in its evolution, as well as the Southern US press's observations and reactions toward them. After briefly analysing other scholars' treatments of US newspaper reports on the Haitian Revolution, which invariably ignored the Richmond Enquirer, the essay discerns that Northern newspapers paradoxically expressed greater fear of the Haitian Revolution's impact on slave revolts and social stability than the Southern press did. Arthur Scherr taught history at the City University of New York for many years. Four of his eight books focus on US opinion of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath, and the Revolution's link with the struggle to abolish slavery in the US, as perceived by its leading political figures and in the partisan press: Thomas Jefferson's Haitian Policy: Myths and Realities (2011); John Adams, Slavery, and Race: Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis (2018); "Rightful Liberty": Slavery, Morality, and Thomas Jefferson's World (2021); and John Jay and Alexander Hamilton on Black Enslavement: New York Founders in a Revolutionary Age (2024).

ISBN: 9783032045737$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-032-04573-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1004001
American newspapers
--History.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

438895
Haiti
--Economic conditions--Periodicals.

LC Class. No.: F1923

Dewey Class. No.: 972.94038

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