37. Liberty, Equality, Humanity: The Haitian Revolution
In an age of revolutions and revolutionary ideas, the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 stands out as the most radical of them all.
Themes:
• N. Nesbitt (ed.), Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Haitian Revolution (London: 2008).
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• S. Buck-Morss, “Hegel and Haiti,” Critical Inquiry 26 (2000), 821-65.
• L. Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge MA: 2004).
• C. Forsdick and C. Høgsbjerg (eds), The Black Jacobins Reader (Durham: 2017).
• D.P. Geggus (ed.), The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Columbia SC: 2001).
• D.P. Geggus, Haitian Revolutionary Studies (Bloomington: 2002).
• C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, second edition (New York: 1989).
• N. Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (Charlottesville: 2008).
• L. Sala-Molins, Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, trans. J. Conteh-Morgan (Minneapolis: 2006).
• D. Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Durham: 2004).
Episodes 29 - 67: Slavery and the Creation of Diasporic African Philosophy
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memorial....
As evidence of the impact of the Haitian revolution on the consciousness of blacks in the antebellum American South, there is in the affluent Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tennessee a slave cemetery named in honor of Toussaint L'Overture.
Immortal
I wonder - two or three centuries from now - who will be immortalized as leaders of the global #MeToo revolution. I'd like to believe L'Ouverture would have been a champion of his sisters' - as well as his brothers' - liberty, equality, and humanity had he lived in our time.
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