The United States and Santo Domingo, 1789-1866

Treudley, Mary, The United States and Santo Domingo, 1789-1866, reprinted from The Journal of Race Development, Volume 7.

From the author’s Introduction:

It is my purpose to chronicle the interrelations between the histories of the United States and Santo Domingo in the period from 1789 to 1866. An introductory chapter on trade relations existing between the two countries during the eighteenth century furnishes the economic background for the political connections which had their beginning as the French Revolution spread through the French colonial possessions. The period dealt with divides into two main parts. The first, from 1789 to 1803, is the period in which the French still retained their hold upon the island, the richest of all their colonies. The second, from 1803 to 1866, covers the first half of the history of Haitian independence and ends with the granting of the long- sought and grudgingly-given recognition of that independence by the United States.

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