Summary of Shane White's Prince of Darkness

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#1 The country of Haiti was a black republic that existed in the New World. It was a pariah among the slaveholding societies of the New World, and its past continued to perplex governments with Caribbean interests.

#2 The Haitian Revolution, sparked by a slave revolt in 1791, fueled by the burning of the city of Cap François on June 20, 1793, and stoked by the egalitarian rhetoric of the French Revolution, turned on its head this ordered and hierarchical world.

#3 The Haitian Revolution was a huge inspiration for African Americans, who saw it as a warning of the dangers of emancipation. For many white Americans, however, the example demonstrated the dangers of emancipation and the need for isolation to avoid a bloodbath.

#4 The city of Port-au-Prince had a population of about 35,000 people in 1828, and it had deteriorated as a result of the Haitian Revolution, which had overthrown European rule and ended slavery. However, some foreigners, like Charles Mackenzie, thought the city was quite sickening.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822513716

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The country of Haiti was a black republic that existed in the New World. It was a pariah among the slaveholding societies of the New World, and its past continued to perplex governments with Caribbean interests.

#2

The Haitian Revolution, sparked by a slave revolt in 1791, fueled by the burning of the city of Cap François on June 20, 1793, and stoked by the egalitarian rhetoric of the French Revolution, turned on its head this ordered and hierarchical world.

#3

The Haitian Revolution was a huge inspiration for African Americans, who saw it as a warning of the dangers of emancipation. For many white Americans, however, the example demonstrated the dangers of emancipation and the need for isolation to avoid a bloodbath.

#4

The city of Port-au-Prince had a population of about 35,000 people in 1828, and it had deteriorated as a result of the Haitian Revolution, which had overthrown European rule and ended slavery. However, some foreigners, like Charles Mackenzie, thought the city was quite sickening.

#5

American currency was not issued by a central authority, and so there were a lot of forgeries in circulation. It was common for Americans to encounter counterfeit money in everyday transactions, and most Americans followed the early-nineteenth-century merchant John Neal’s advice that if you buy the devil, the sooner you sell him, the better.

#6

The fragile Haitian economy was especially vulnerable to counterfeiting. The government had debased and alloyed the country’s coin, or in other words, lowered its silver content. And in 1825 the French had coerced the Haitian government into agreeing to hand over a massive indemnity of 150 million francs to compensate for losses incurred during the Revolution.

#7

The Ann Eliza Jane was used to transport the counterfeit money back to New York, and it was probably owned by the consortium of merchants that had funded the mission. Hamilton knew what he was doing, and the people behind the venture knew what they were doing.

#8

Jehovitch, the ship owner, was a fixer, a facilitator. He knew people and did favors. He was a reputable merchant, but his respectability could not be too closely examined.

#9

The counterfeit coins were too good to be true. They were too much silver in them, and the Haitian clerk at Squire and Alvaret, where Hamilton had been depositing money, checked and discovered that compared to the genuine coin, the counterfeit coins had too much silver in them.

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