The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and
slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to
universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and
antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in
the Americas to permanently abolish slavery, outlaw color
prejudice, and forbid colonialism, Haitians established their
nation in a hostile Atlantic World. Slavery was ubiquitous
throughout the rest of the Americas and foreign nations, and
empires repeatedly attacked Haitian sovereignty. Yet Haitian
writers and politicians successfully defended their independence
while planting the ideological roots of egalitarian statehood. In
Awakening the Ashes, Marlene L. Daut situates famous and
lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian
revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the
global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and
interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While
modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to
the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration
of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference
should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being
should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by
the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire.
General
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Marlene L. Daut
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
416 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4696-7684-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-4696-7684-2 |
Barcode: |
9781469676845 |
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