Study of Thomas Jefferson's attitudes toward the Haitian Revolution, his policies concerning it as president, and his racial views more generally. The book shows that, contrary to many more superficial studies, Jefferson was not obsessed with fear of the Haitian Revolution as evil, or that it would precipitate slave insurrections in US. To the contrary, he favored the revolution and wanted to use Haiti as a "receptacle" to which all the slaves in the US would be sent to live after being emancipated by US governmental fiat.
