Tag Archives: Toussaint L’Ouverture

3.10 – We Need to Talk

December 30, 201903 - Thomas JeffersonBarbary States, Chancellor Robert Livingston, Dolley Madison, East Florida, France, Haitian Revolution, Henri Christophe, James Madison, Louisiana, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Meriwether Lewis, Morocco, Napoleon Bonaparte, New Orleans, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Mann Randolph, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Washington DC, West Floridapresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1801-1803

As French First Consul Napoléon Bonaparte begins to shift the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere in his favor, President Jefferson works to counter these ambitions through diplomatic efforts in both Washington and Paris. Meanwhile, a Mediterranean power declares war on the US, and Jefferson’s powers of persuasion are put to the test when dealing with family matters. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool” by Thomas Lawrence [c. 1790s], courtesy of Wikipedia

Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band

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3.09 – Yazoo to You Too

December 15, 201903 - Thomas JeffersonAlbert Gallatin, Alexander Hamilton, Chancellor Robert Livingston, East Florida, France, George Hammond, Georgia, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, Henri Christophe, Henry Addington, James Madison, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John Adams, Levi Lincoln, Mississippi Territory, Napoleon Bonaparte, New Orleans, Rufus King, Spain, Talleyrand, Thomas Jefferson, Tobias Lear, Toussaint L'Ouverture, West Florida, William Pitt the Youngerpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1795-1802

While the Jefferson administration made a breakthrough in settling a long-standing dispute with the state of Georgia over its western land claims in 1802, the new US Minister to France, Robert Livingston, began his mission trying to get answers on the situation with the colony of Louisiana. Meanwhile, peace in Europe and a new phase of the conflict in Saint-Domingue threaten to upend Jefferson’s vision for the west. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Map of West Florida” [c. 1767], courtesy of Wikipedia

Intro and Outro Music: Selections from “Jefferson and Liberty” as performed by The Itinerant Band

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3.05 – Affairs, Foreign and Domestic

October 13, 201903 - Thomas JeffersonAlbert Gallatin, Barbary States, Dolley Madison, France, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, Henry Addington, Ireland, James Callender, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Levi Lincoln, Manuel de Godoy, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Meriwether Lewis, Napoleon Bonaparte, Spain, Talleyrand, Thomas Jefferson, Toussaint L'Ouverture, William Pitt the Younger, William Vans Murraypresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1799-1801

The beginning of Jefferson’s administration coincided with changes in other parts of the world including France, Great Britain, Spain, and Saint-Domingue that would ultimately come to impact the United States. Meanwhile, as Jefferson continued to assemble his Cabinet, he and his administration also had to deal with a new round of negotiation with Napoléon’s government and appeasing an irate office seeker who threatened to expose the President to public scandal. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Le général Toussaint Louverture” [c. 19th century], courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.21 – I am Gabriel, That Stands in the Presence of God

May 5, 201902 - John AdamsAlien and Sedition Acts, France, Haitian Revolution, James Monroe, Napoleon Bonaparte, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Virginiapresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1792-1801

The revolution in Saint-Domingue inspires enslaved people in the United States to seek their freedom in the 1790s at a time that the slaveocracy was becoming more ingrained in the American economy, society, and legal codes. With a focus on Virginia, this episode will explore the shifts in the American slave system in the late 1790s and the planned insurrection that has come to be known as Gabriel’s Rebellion. Sources used in this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Struggle for freedom in a Maryland barn.” by William Still [c. 1872], courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.19 – Don’t Let the Door Hit You

April 7, 201902 - John AdamsAbigail Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Stoddert, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Lee, Haitian Revolution, James McHenry, John Adams, John Marshall, John Randolph of Roanoke, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Samuel Dexter, Theodore Sedgwick, Timothy Pickering, Toussaint L'Ouverturepresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1799-1800

As the presidential election of 1800 looms and party leaders begin weighing their options, President Adams decides that the time is right to make a few changes in his administration. To the President’s detriment, though, Arch Federalists are scheming at the same time to remove him from his office. Meanwhile, new congressmen are making a name for themselves, and Toussaint L’Ouverture works to consolidate his power in Hispanola. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Timothy Pickering” by Charles Willson Peale, courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.16 – High Noon in Trenton

February 24, 201902 - John AdamsAlexander Hamilton, Benjamin Stoddert, Charles Lee, France, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, James McHenry, John Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Patrick Henry, Talleyrand, Timothy Pickering, Toussaint L'Ouverture, William R Davie, William Vans Murraypresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1798-1799

New unrest in the government of France in 1799 presented President Adams with an important decision as to whether to continue with his peace overtures. Meanwhile, competing agendas within his own administration prompt one of Adams’s Cabinet members to urge him to end his sojourn in Quincy as yet another yellow fever epidemic strikes Philadelphia. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Drawing of the New Jersey state capitol at Trenton” [c. 1879], courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.14 – The Plausible Probability of Preserving the Peace

January 27, 201902 - John AdamsAlexander Hamilton, Benjamin Stoddert, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Lee, Democratic-Republican Party, Federalists, France, Francisco de Miranda, George Washington, Haitian Revolution, James McHenry, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Patrick Henry, Robert Liston, Rufus King, Spain, Talleyrand, Theodore Sedgwick, Thomas Jefferson, Timothy Pickering, Toussaint L'Ouverture, William Vans Murraypresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1798-1799

Adams throws the American political landscape into a frenzy with a special message to Congress announcing that he was appointing a new Minister to France to negotiate peace. While exploring what this all means for Adams, his administration, and the nation, we also take a step back in this episode to look at the influence of American policy in Saint-Domingue and South America on the realities and future of Franco-American relations in 1799. Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Atlantic or Western Ocean” by John Thomson [c. 1814], courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.09 – All Around and Away They Go

November 18, 201802 - John AdamsAlbert Gallatin, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin Bache, Benjamin Stoddert, Caribbean, Democratic-Republican Party, Elbridge Gerry, Federalists, France, Francisco de Miranda, George Washington, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, James McHenry, James Wilkinson, John Adams, Rufus King, Spain, Timothy Pickering, Toussaint L'Ouverturepresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1797-1799

As the events of the Haitian Revolution start to involve the US and the Army works to secure control of the Mississippi Territory from the Spanish, Adams and the Federalists work to determine a response to the XYZ Affair. However, as their power begins to consolidate, some in the party plot ways to use the situation to their advantage. Oh, and Adams goes to see a play! Sources used for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland,” unknown artist [c. 1790s?], courtesy of Wikipedia

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2.04 – Hither and Yon: The News From Abroad

September 9, 201802 - John AdamsFrance, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, James Wilkinson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Louisa Catherine Adams, Napoleon Bonaparte, Rufus King, Spain, Talleyrand, Toussaint L'Ouverturepresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1783-1797

In this episode, we get caught up on the international situation around the time of Adams’s inauguration and the various issues that conditions beyond its borders bring up for the United States. Britain is faced with attacks from both at home and abroad. The French Directory stumbles along as two leaders arise. Toussaint L’Ouverture contemplates the future of Saint-Domingue. Various European powers conspire to threaten American sovereignty west of the Appalachians. Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Bataille gagnée par le Général Bonaparte le 14 Janvier 1797”, Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux [c. 1844], courtesy of Wikipedia

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1.25 – The Happy Course

February 4, 201801 - George WashingtonAlexander Hamilton, Caribbean, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Democratic-Republican Party, Dolley Madison, Eliza Hamilton, France, French Revolution, George Washington, Georgia, Great Britain, Haitian Revolution, Henry Knox, James Madison, James Monroe, John Jay, Native Americans, Oliver Wolcott Jr, Poland, Russia, Spain, Thomas Pinckney, Timothy Pickering, Toussaint L'Ouverture, US Supreme Courtpresidencies

Year(s) Discussed: 1772-1795

As Alexander Hamilton readies himself to depart from the administration at the beginning of 1795, I use this defining point of the Washington presidency to explore various points of domestic policy and foreign issues including the establishment of the Trans-Oconee Republic, the state of the Democratic-Republican faction, the first steps of the Thermadorian government in France, the Kościuszko Uprising in Poland, the influx of refugees from Saint-Domingue and the progress of the Haitian Revolution, and British intrigues in the Caribbean. Many issues face Washington and his new Cabinet secretaries as they enter the final two years of his second term. Source information for this episode can be found at http://presidencies.blubrry.com.

Featured Image: “Portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko” by Karl Gottlieb Schweikart, courtesy of Wikipedia

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Tag Archives: Toussaint L’Ouverture

3.10 – We Need to Talk

3.09 – Yazoo to You Too

3.05 – Affairs, Foreign and Domestic

2.21 – I am Gabriel, That Stands in the Presence of God

2.19 – Don’t Let the Door Hit You

2.16 – High Noon in Trenton

2.14 – The Plausible Probability of Preserving the Peace

2.09 – All Around and Away They Go

2.04 – Hither and Yon: The News From Abroad

1.25 – The Happy Course