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The Colonial System Unveiled (Hardcover)
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The Colonial System Unveiled (Hardcover)
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Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution
(1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic
disciplines as an event of world-historical importance. The former
slaves' victory over their French masters and the creation of the
independent nation of Haiti in 1804 is being newly heralded not
only as a seminal moment in the transnational formation of the
'black Atlantic' but as the most far-reaching manifestation of
'Radical Enlightenment'. The best known Haitian writer to emerge in
the years after the revolution is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who
authored over ten books and pamphlets between 1814 and his murder
in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le systeme colonial
devoile (1814), provides a moving invocation of the horrors of
slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing
critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the
anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Cesaire, Fanon, and Sartre.
Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of
the colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across
the humanities.
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