The Haitian Revolution & Revolutionary Things with Ashli C. White

Professor Ashli White (University of Miami) joins us to talk about her book, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic on the impact of the Haitian Revolution in the United States in the Washington, Adams, and Jefferson administrations. We also talk about her forthcoming book, Revolutionary Things, on objects of Revolution in the United States, France, and Haiti--like the cockades worn in hats, and wax figures. Madame Tussaud opened her waxworks in London, and in Boston you could see a wax re-enactment of Louis XVI's execution.

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