ABSTRACT
A clergyman, James T. Holly was the most vocal advocate in the decade before the Civil War of emigration to Haiti. His tract, A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race as Demonstrated by Historical Events of the Haitian Revolution, was published in 1857. This chapter examines the events of Haytian History, from the commencement of their revolution down to the present period. The great mass of the Caucasian race still deem the Negro as entirely destitute of those qualities, These oppressors, against whom the Negro insurgents of Hayti had to contend, were not only the government of a far distant mother country, as in the case of the American revolution. But unlike and more fearful than this revolt, the colonial government of Hayti was also thrown in the balance against the Negro revolters. Africa was completely shut up until the time arrived for the emancipation of her children in the Western World.
