The Black Republic explores the critical but overlooked place of Haiti in black thought in the post-Civil War era. Following emancipation, African American leaders considered Haiti a singular example of black self-governance whose fate was inextricably linked to that of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination.

Prologue
Introduction. The Ideas of Haiti and Black Internationalism
Chapter 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Quandary of Haiti
Chapter 2. The Reinventions of Haiti After Reconstruction
Chapter 3. The Vexing Inspiration of Haiti in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow
Chapter 4. Haiti, the Negro Problem, and the Transnational Politics of Racial Uplift
Chapter 5. W. E. B. Du Bois, the Occupation, and Radical Black Internationalism
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

Brandon R. Byrd is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University.