The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti, by Brandon R.?Byrd

摘要

In The Black Republic, Brandon Byrd fills an important gap in the literatureon relations between the United States and Haiti by focusing on the views ofprominent African American intellectuals and public figures in the late nineteenthand early twentieth centuries, and the policies they advocated to“uplift”Haiti from its backwardness. Among the most well-known African Americansof the times whose views he considered are those of WilliamWells Brown, BenjaminTucker Tanner, John Mercer Langston, Louden S. Langley, Ebenezer DonCarlos Bassett, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois.