![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Horne, this period in US history exhibited the opposite of a retreat for slavery. The documentary period of the book overlaps US history from the Federal period midway through Reconstruction. ![]() The revolution posed starkly an existential question: retreat stolidly from slavery or risk losing everything-including one's life, as in Hispaniola" (p. ![]() How was this "retreat" manifested? The fact that the black slaves of Haiti rose up and killed their white owners "was bound to concentrate devilishly the collective mind of the slave-holding republic. In Confronting Black Jacobins, historian Gerald Horne states his "central argument" thus: "he Haitian Revolution created a general crisis for the system of slavery that could only be resolved with its collapse." It represented a "confrontation that compelled a retreat of the racialized slavery that had given rise to the slave-holding republic in the first instance" (p. ![]()
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