Chapter 3. “Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St. Domingo”: Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the Counterrevolution of Secession

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. “The Insurrection of the Blacks in St. Domingo”: Remembering Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution 11
5. PART I. Opening the Civil War of Words
6. Chapter 2. “He patterned His Life After the San Domingan”: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the Triumph of Violent Abolitionism 33
7. Chapter 3. “Contemplate, I beseech you, fellow-citizens, the example of St. Domingo”: Abolitionist Dreams, Confederate Nightmares, and the Counterrevolution of Secession 55
8. PART II. A Second Haitian Revolution?
9. Chapter 4. “Liberty on the Battle-field”: Haiti and the Movement to Arm Black Soldiers 77
10. Chapter 5. “Emancipation or Insurrection”: Haiti and the End of Slavery in America 98
11. PART III. Nations Within a Nation
12. Chapter 6. “Many a Touissant L’Overture Amongst us”: Black Identity 121
13. Chapter 7. “A Repetition of San Domingo?”: Southern White Identity 144
14. Chapter 8. “Do we want another San Domingo to be repeated in the South?” Northern White Identity 162
15. Conclusion 181
16. Notes 187
17. Index 231
18. Acknowledgments 237