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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Arendt, the author proceeds to a brief case study of the highly polemical writings of Pompée Valentin, baron de Vastey, the secretary and “publicist” to King Henry Christophe. The first Haitian writer of note, Vastey passionately defended Haiti's revolutionary birth, its sovereignty, and its monarchy...
View articletitled, Empire of Freedom, Kingdom of Civilization: Henry Christophe, the <span class="search-highlight">Baron</span> <span class="search-highlight">de</span> <span class="search-highlight">Vastey</span>, and the Paradoxes of Universalism in Postrevolutionary Haiti
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for article titled, Empire of Freedom, Kingdom of Civilization: Henry Christophe, the <span class="search-highlight">Baron</span> <span class="search-highlight">de</span> <span class="search-highlight">Vastey</span>, and the Paradoxes of Universalism in Postrevolutionary Haiti
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Atlantic “guild” that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin, and Thomas Madiou produced an immeasurable influence on the direction of historical scholarship across the world...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., beasts, or mongrels.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Code Noir Malick Ghachem Haitian Revolution slave law Baron de Vastey In what follows, I provide an overview of Colin Dayan's work that attends, specifically, to her representations of slave law, perhaps the most obvious thread joining...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
... examines the output of two relatively obscure black male radicals of the
period, Baron de Vastey, from Haiti, and 1 eophilus Scholes, from Jamaica. Both were
important, if under-recognized, doyens of a critical tradition of African reclamationism
that foregrounded African history as a mechanism...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
... for considering the early nineteenth-century vindicationist writings of Baron de Vastey at the origins of what she has termed “Black Atlantic Humanism.” 32 It is in the privileging of elements of protest, forensic rhetoric (reproductions of quotations, excerpts from letters, annexed exhibit documents...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789 1865 (2015) and Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017). She is currently finishing an intellectual history of Haiti, tentatively titled Awakening the Ashes. Anne Eller i s...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 188–190.
Published: 01 November 2014
...-Baptiste Picquenard and Victor Hugo, as well as, most recently, Haitian writer Baron de Vastey's trailblazing 1814 work of anticolonial critique, The Colonial System Unveiled (2014). J. B rent C rosson recently completed a PhD dissertation based on field research in Trinidad with the assistance...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... Thomas, Arturo Schomburg, Una Marson, Hubert Harrison and Baron de Vastey. 28 These studies are allied to but somewhat discrete from another trend within the field, the intellectual biography, with major biographies of Marcus Garvey, Eric Williams, and Derek Walcott, of which Bruce King’s study...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
... literature emerged in the fi rst decades of the nineteenth century with works, for example,
by Pompée Valentin (Baron) de Vastey, Le système colonial dévoiléé (Cap Henry, Haiti: n.p., 1814).
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a solid education in the humanities and classics.⁷ Firmin later acquired a law degree at age
twenty...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 109–123.
Published: 01 September 2005
...-imperialism
and dictatorship, which was a signature of all early Haitian autocrats from Toussaint
Louverture and Dessalines to Christophe. Baron de Vastey, the latter dictator’s state
theoretician, propagated this mixture to the detriment of the French and the southern
republicans...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., tropicalized and radicalized, by a series of figures who together constitute a francophone, black Jacobin radical anticolonial tradition: Toussaint Louverture, baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, C. L. R. James, and ultimately Césaire himself. The primary figures in this tradition are undoubtedly...
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