World society, international society and the periphery: British abolitionists and the post-slave state of Haiti in the early nineteenth centuryFootnote^*

* The author would like to thank Jay Kirstein, Alexandria Innes, Chelsea Manning, Cornelia Navari, Matthew Slaboch, and the anonymous reviewers and editors at CRIA for their extremely helpful comments on prior versions of this manuscript. All errors are my own.

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