TY - BOOK ID - 135632418 TI - Siblings of soil : Dominicans and Haitians in the Age of Revolutions PY - 2022 SN - 1477326103 9781477326107 9781477326114 PB - Austin : University of Texas Press, DB - UniCat KW - Dominican Republic KW - Haiti KW - Hispaniola KW - Relations KW - History. KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135632418 AB - Despite the island’s long-simmering tensions, Dominicans and Haitians once unified Hispaniola. Based on research from over two dozen archives in multiple countries, Siblings of Soil presents the overlooked history of their shared imperial endings and national beginnings from the 1780s to 1822. Haitian revolutionaries both inspired and aided Dominican antislavery and anti-imperial movements. Ultimately, Saint-Domingue's independence from Spain came in 1822 through unification with Haiti, as Dominicans embraced citizenship and emancipation. Their collaboration resulted in one of the most unique and inclusive forms of independence in the Americas. Elite reactions to this era formed anti-Haitian narratives. Racial ideas permeated the revolution, Vodou, Catholicism, secularism, and even Deism. Some Dominicans reinforced Hispanic and Catholic traditions and cast Haitians as violent heretics who had invaded Dominican society, undermining the innovative, multicultural state. Two centuries later, distortions of their shared past of kinship have enabled generations of anti-Haitian policies, assumptions of irreconcilable differences, and human rights abuses. ER -