Garrison-Mazzini parallels, Fuller’s Roman dispatches, Mazzinian guerrilla warfare influence on John Brown, and the global circulation of ideas leading to developments in Black American republican political thought and abolitionist strategy grounded in political liberation and ethical upliftment, producing a shared ideological ecosystem bound to a moralizing republicanism. Black abolitionist activists, especially those engaged with transatlantic abolitionist ideas and circles were exposed to European republican debates and a shared democratic universalism insisting all peoples deserved freedom.
- INTRODUCTION: THE ITALIAN INDICTMENT OF EARLY U.S. REPUBLIC — Introduction to the history and betrayal of Italian Republicanism.
- FROM THE CARBONARI TO MAZZINI — tracing the transformation from reactive conspiracy to affirmative moral philosophy grounded in Doveri dell’Uomo.
- THE CATTANEO-MAZZINI DIVERGENCE ON FEDERALISM AND SLAVERY — expanded treatment of how both men condemned American slavery from different structural angles (unitary vs. federal republicanism), with Cattaneo’s surgical argument that slavery was a royalist remnant, not a federal defect.
- THE KOSSUTH CONTRAST — exploration of Kossuth’s cynical refusal to denounce slavery during his 1851-52 American tour vs. Mazzini’s unwavering moral consistency, and what that fault line revealed about European revolutionary movements.
- THE ITALIAN STAGE — on Rota’s Bianchi e neri, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, satirical journalism, and how Italian audiences laughed at America’s pretensions to freedom.
- GARIBALDI IN SOUTH AMERICA: PRACTICALITY OF REPUBLICAN INTERNATIONALISM — the multi-racial, internationalist context of the Guerra Grande.
- THE TRANSATLANTIC CIRCUIT — Garrison-Mazzini parallels, Fuller’s Roman dispatches, Timothy M. Roberts’s research on Mazzini’s influence on John Brown, and the pathway into Black Republican political thought.
- ITALY’S DIARCHY AND FASCIST ALLIANCE DESTROYS REPUBLICAN INHERITANCE — the Rosselli assassinations, the outlawing of Masonic networks, and how the monarchist-conservative line triumphed over the Mazzinian tradition.
- REPUBLICANISM AS A DIVINE IDEAL — describing the philosophical displacement of republicanism in the world, why Washington and Mazzini refer to republicanism as a divine ideal, its fight against theocracy, and the argument that this republicanism is foundational, not foreign, necessitates revival, and belongs most urgently to those for whom its promise was most violently betrayed.
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