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Topic Essay: The Power Struggle and Desire for Freedom toward Independence in the Caribbean
Daniela Fierro February 23, 2020
Thesis: Despite widespread inspiration of the Haitian Revolution across the Caribbean, history narratives regarding such have been produced in a way that presents the struggle for power, freedom and independence among the people.
These are my three supporting points: Struggle for power, for freedom, and for independence.
· Power struggle; competition among rules from the greatest empires. Between Empires (Module 4)
· Independence; inconsistencies in narratives about independence. Revolution Across the Americas (Module 3)
Evidence
· In the article “All would be equal in the effort”, Eller argues that during the early nineteenth-century in the Caribbean, Santo Domingo was a significant bridge for “common wind” of revolutionary thought; mainly because it was Haiti’s neighbor. [footnoteRef:1] [1: Anne Eller, “ 'All would be equal in the effort': Santo Domingo’s “Italian Revolution”, Independence, and Haiti, 1809-1822,” Journal of Early American History 1 (2011) 105–141. (Change to Chicago style; still working on) ]
· “The Reconquista campaign for the restoring of Spanish rule brought conflicts over sovereignty and independence in Santo Domingo.” [footnoteRef:2] [2: “same as above, still working on” (Change to Chicago style; still working on) ]
· Trouillot’s, the contemporary inability to understand the events of the Revolution, specially, the actions and aspirations of slave revels, helps to explain the relative absence of Haitian Revolution in historical knowledge. [footnoteRef:3] [3: Michel Rolph Trouillot, “North Atlantic Universals” (20 pages); (Change to Chicago style; still working on) ]
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The Power Struggle and Desire for Freedom toward Independence in the Caribbean
Daniela Fierro
