Entangled Alliances - (United States in the World) by Ronald Angelo Johnson (Paperback)

About the Book

"A diplomatic history of race relations between the United States and Haiti from 1765 to 1825 that brings together the voices of Black leaders in Haiti and multiracial founders in the United States to examine an alternative way that some inhabitants of both nations understood their place in the Atlantic world"- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny.

The American Revolution occurred between two of the greatest achievements in diplomacy of the eighteenth century: the peace treaties at Paris in 1763 and 1783. In Entangled Alliances, Johnson draws on original multilingual sources to offer readers fresh, lively stories in a timely study. While modern understandings of freedom are often linked to the US Declaration of Independence, Johnson argues that the desire of Black Atlantic inhabitants for liberty and their will to resist slavery predated the fateful standoff between minutemen and redcoats at Lexington and Concord.

Entangled Alliances is a US history of the American Revolution, fusing the search for freedom by Black and white founders in the United States and Saint-Domingue into a coherent story of collective resistance during the most explosive twenty-year period of the eighteenth century.

About the Author

Ronald Angelo Johnson holds the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University.