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Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: The New Urban Atlantic
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Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political
writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book
Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings
as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse
devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism.
Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's
King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of
deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much
more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B.
Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aime Cesaire. By expertly forging
exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey
and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis
Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs,
Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic
thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey.
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