...Saint Domingue/Haiti ...

...Haiti ...

... on her life and work. Fick outlines the emergence – under the influence of James and George Rudé – of the project that culminated in the publication of The Making of Haiti , her study of the Saint-Domingue, or Haitian Revolution “from below.” The chapter illustrates how James’s influence provided...

... of James’s The Black Jacobins for the writing of history today? To think in these terms supposes that the revolution ‘in philosophy’ associated with the founding of Haiti turns, critically, on how history itself can be understood.” Haitian Revolution The Black Jacobins History C. L. R. James ...

... This essay, by David Scott, inquires into the uses of Haiti and its revolution as emblematic for contemporary theory. It raises a question about the new philosophic construction of Haiti—and its revolution—as an originary or exemplary moment of human rights, less to impugn universality...

... anticolonialism, and on forging stronger and more radical ties with the republican administration in Haiti. Although Haiti’s president Geffrard maintained a position of neutrality, covert aid from Haitian citizens toward the east was constant. Reactionary members of the Dominican mobilization, meanwhile, were...