Matthewson — Chapter Notes Source: matthewson proslavery foreign policy

Matthewson — Chapter Notes Source: matthewson proslavery foreign policy Preface (pp. vii–x) Matthewson states the book's purpose plainly: to show that the proslavery policies of Washington, Jefferson, and other Founding Fathers shaped US engagement with the Haitian Revolution, and to trace how the US sought to influence post-independence Haiti. He writes in the spirit of Frederick Douglass, whose 1893 speech at the World's Columbian Exposition defended Haiti as a symbol of Black freedom worldwide.