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During the Haitian Revolution, which group of people embraced the revolution as a call for full abolition and rights of citizenship denied in the United States?
Free people of color
Who wrote an Appeal in 1829 that called for resistance to slavery and racism, and referred to Haiti as the 'glory of the blacks and terror of the tyrants'?
David Walker
According to the Colored American, what did the history of Haiti demonstrate about colored men?
They were capable of achieving as much as white people
How did white leaders respond to the Black activism inspired by Haiti's revolution?
They used the violence of the Haitian revolt to reinforce white supremacy and pro-slavery views
What did the 'Bobalition' broadsides published in Boston in the 1810s do?
They crudely caricatured African Americans
What did the widespread distribution of materials like the 'Bobalition' broadsides lead to?
The reinforcement of racist ideas in the nineteenth century
Test your knowledge about the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Black Americans in the United States. Explore how the revolution inspired and terrified different groups, and discover how it influenced the fight for abolition and equal rights.
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