Arthur Scherr

John Adams, Slavery, and Race (eBook, PDF)

Ideas, Politics, and Diplomacy in an Age of Crisis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing the first full investigation of second U.S. president John Adams' attitudes toward slavery, blacks, and the Haitian Revolution, this iconoclastic study illuminates the inner and outer worlds of Adams for scholars and general readers. John Adams was a Founding Father of the United States who not only played a key role in laying the foundation of the nation but is also highly regarded as a great speaker, thinker, lawyer, revolutionary, diplomat, vice president, and president. But was Adams an opponent of slavery and a believer in racial equality? The historical evidence points to the contrary. This book is the first to discuss at any length John Adams's views on race, slavery, and slavery extension by examining his writings, politics, and diplomacy. Historian Arthur Scherr, an expert who is uniquely knowledgeable about Adams's views on slavery, race, and the Haitian Revolution, reveals Adams's attitudes toward slavery and race in and out of office, spotlighting his views on slavery during the American Revolution, his perspective regarding race as vice president and president of the United States, and his opinions in retirement. Readers will be able to form their opinions based on factual documentation of Adams's statements and actions regarding the key events involving slavery and race during this period: the gradual emancipation of slaves; U.S. aid to Haiti, the only black-governed nation in the world, and to its Governor-General Toussaint Louverture in gaining its independence; and the U.S. government's decision to permit slavery in new states and territories formed from public lands such as the Old Northwest and the Louisiana Purchase.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440859519
• Artikelnr.: 68251295

Autorenporträt

Arthur Scherr, PhD, teaches history at the City University of New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Historians View John Adams on Slavery and Race
Chapter 1 Adams's Attitudes on Slavery and Race during the Revolutionary
Period Chapter 2 John Adams and Slavery: From the Vice Presidency to the
Presidency, 1789-1801 Chapter 3 Reconsidering John Adams and "The St.
Domingo Business": Recent Historiography, Haitian Independence, and Early
American Foreign Policy Chapter 4 President Adams's Changing Relationship
with Haiti Chapter 5 Ideals or Self-Interest? The Adams Administration and
U.S. Weapons Traffic with Haiti Chapter 6 Adams, Jefferson, and U.S. Trade
with Haiti: A Closer Look Chapter 7 John Adams's Last Years: Antislavery,
Anti-Black Conclusion: John Adams, Slavery, and the Founding Notes
Bibliography Index