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This monograph studies the view of the leading US Southern Democratic newspaper, Thomas Ritchie’s Richmond Enquirer, on the Haitian Revolution, examining it microcosmically from its response to two major events that most historians have overlooked: Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ massacres of French whites in 1804 and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s invasion and annexation of Santo Domingo (the present-day Dominican Republic) in 1822.The Enquirer was objective and even relatively friendly to the Haitian Revolution. While reporting the massacre of the white population and the invasion and annexation of a militarily weak neighbour, it did not stoop to calling the Haitians “uncivilized,” “lawless,” or “brigands and pirates.”

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    2025年

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  • Arthur Scherr

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This monograph studies the view of the leading US Southern Democratic newspaper, Thomas Ritchie’s Richmond Enquirer, on the Haitian Revolution, examining it microcosmically from its response to two major events that most historians have overlooked: Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ massacres of French whites in 1804 and President Jean-Pierre Boyer’s invasion and annexation of Santo Domingo (the present-day Dominican Republic) in 1822.The Enquirer was objective and even relatively friendly to the Haitian Revolution. While reporting the massacre of the white population and the invasion and annexation of a militarily weak neighbour, it did not stoop to calling the Haitians “uncivilized,” “lawless,” or “brigands and pirates.”