Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance

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DIPLOMACY IN BLACK AND WHITE This page intentionally left blank Published in Cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in African American History SERIES EDITORS Richard S. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology Patrick Rael Bowdoin College Manisha Sinha University of Massachusetts, Amherst ADVISORY BOARD Edward Baptist Cornell University Christopher Brown Columbia University Vincent Carretta University of Maryland Laurent Dubois Duke University Erica Armstrong Dunbar University of Delaware and the Library Company of Philadelphia Douglas Egerton LeMoyne College Leslie Harris Emory University Joanne Pope Melish University of Kentucky Sue Peabody Washington State University, Vancouver Erik Seeman State University of New York, Buffalo John Stauffer Harvard University This page intentionally left blank Diplomacy in Black and White John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance Ronald Angelo Johnson The University of Georgia Press Athens and London Parts of chapter 1 were published as “A Revolutionary Dinner: U.S. Diplomacy toward Saint Domingue, 1798–1801,” in Early American Studies 9 (2011): 114–41. Copyright © 2011 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved.© 2014 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Set in Minion Pro and Adobe Caslon Pro by Graphic Composition, Inc., Bogart, Georgia Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Most University of Georgia Press titles are available from popular e-book vendors. Printed in the United States of America 17 16 15 14 13 c 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Johnson, Ronald Angelo, 1970– Diplomacy in black and white : John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and their Atlantic world alliance / Ronald Angelo Johnson. pages cm. — (Race in the atlantic world, 1700–1900) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8203-4212-2 (hardback) — isbn 0-8203-4212-2 (hardcover) 1. United States—Foreign relations—Haiti. 2. Haiti—Foreign relations—United States. 3. Adams, John, 1735–1826. 4. Toussaint Louverture, 1743–1803. 5. Haiti—History—Revolution, 1791–1804—Influence. 6. Blacks—Race identity—Atlantic Ocean Region. 7. Atlantic Ocean Region—Race relations—History— 19th century. I. Title. e183.8.h2j65 2014 327.7307294'09034—dc23 2013016652 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available For Colette This page intentionally left blank ...