Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution Daut Marlene L.
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution Daut Marlene L. The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters…
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Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution Daut Marlene L.
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. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout the rest of the Americas and foreign nations, and empires repeatedly attacked Haitian sovereignty. 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.
Daut situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history Yet Haitian writers and politicians successfully defended their independence while planting the ideological roots of egalitarian statehood.In Awakening the Ashes, Marlene L.
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