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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Chelsea Stieber This essay analyzes the genre of mémoire produced by gens de couleur (free people of color) within the colonial and military bureaucracy of revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Building on recent scholarship on Toussaint Louverture’s 1802 “Mémoire du général Toussaint Louverture...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... benevolence, a valence of White saviorism, is a performance designed to maintain the status quo of colonial Saint-Domingue. The essay also considers the implications of examining global South critiques of Whiteness for the often US-centric field of critical Whiteness studies. Dance on the Volcano focuses...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Revolutionaries—not
just Toussaint Louverture but also, as Carolyn Fick has demonstrated, the whole multitude
of Haitian slaves—fought to institute an emancipatory social structure that would allow for
1. “Bossale” refers to the slaves of Saint-Domingue born in Africa and subsequently brought by force...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... further than
was ever intended, carrying it to its radical conclusion. “Reaction triumphed” in Paris,
as James points out, but in Saint Domingue
[Th e slaves] had heard of the revolution and had construed it in their own image: the white slaves
in France had risen, and killed their masters...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 208–219.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in the port of Havana in 1802 and 1803, during the time of Victor Leclerc’s unsuccessful expedition that sought to restore French colonial rule in neighboring Saint-Domingue, Ada Ferrer writes of Havana: “Crew members entered a world already itself fairly cosmopolitan, one with vibrant, diverse and polyglot...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the idea of Hispanic Caribbean studies for the historical study of the region. Historically, the Hispanic Caribbean at times included islands and colonies such as Jamaica, Trinidad, and Saint-Domingue. Patterns of migration further complicate the boundaries of the Hispanic Caribbean, as diaspora renders...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and violence. The slave insurgency in Saint Domingue thus becomes a privileged moment in universal history. While I find Buck-Morss' reading of Hegel's master-slave dialectic in light of the Haitian Revolution more persuasive than many other recent attempts at thinking universality in relation to slave...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution uses extensive primary source documentation alongside an evocative prose style that allows for speculative possibilities. Despite silences in the historical record, how might free and enslaved blacks in Saint-Domingue and Cuba have...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
... with the (mis)rule of law in colonial Saint-Domingue and anticipate much of what she will later have to say in The Law Is a White Dog about “the extremity of contemporary punishment in the United States” and how it “can be traced back to the country's colonial history of legal stigma and civil incapacity...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 152–162.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Saint-Domingue, c’est étudier une des origins, une des sources, de l’actuelle
civilisation occidentale.
—Aimé Césaire, Toussaint Louverture
“To study Saint-Domingue is to study one of the origins, one of the sources, of contemporary
Western Civilization.”1 But in precisely what senses might...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... in question, already examined earlier in the volume by Isaac Louverture, shortly
after his return to Saint-Domingue, is “a gray-and-green vase decorated with images of certain
battle triumphs of Toussaint Louverture—victories over the Spanish and the English, rendered...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 1–13.
Published: 01 October 2008
...-ethnic alliances during the revolutionary events in Saint-Domingue
dress up such a reconfiguration of pigmentocratic structures with new meanings (with what
he calls “the prose-poetry and the flowers”) that counter the actual contemporary expediency
and pragmatism of such moves...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 45–61.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., pledging to the Haitian peoples to “assure forever the empire of liberty in the country that saw [their] birth.” 1 The paradox here is less in the yoking of empire and liberty than the assertion of a common birthplace. As of 1791, more than half the total population of colonial Saint-Domingue had been...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in general; it requires a long apprenticeship and great trials; and besides, the Negroes in the islands, in Saint-Domingue, were a hundred times happier under good masters than in their homeland. 4 As with the retrospective insight on the excesses of the French Revolution, Haiti's 1804 declaration...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 177–183.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., sources about the Haitian Revolution: the
French General Pamphile de Lacroix, a veteran of the wars in Saint-Domingue who wrote a
famous memoir about his experiences, and Michel Etienne Descourtilz, whose narrative of
imprisonment Bell skillfully channels into stories told by Descourtilz to other...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 173–185.
Published: 01 November 2010
...” until historical actors in Saint-Domingue proved otherwise.9 This extraordinary
contribution to human freedom has not been superseded. Hegel, for whom empirical history
was the disposable occasion for the coming-into-being of the Idea, was unable to plumb the
depths the singular...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 199–209.
Published: 01 November 2021
... C’est dans cet esprit qu’il entreprend d’étudier les représentations de l’Afrique pendant la période révolutionnaire à Saint-Domingue. Dès le premier paragraphe de son essai sur « Le surgissement du terme “africain” pendant la révolution de Saint-Domingue », Saint-Louis note, « C’est faire grave injure...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on the Haitian Revolution, working directly with Yvonne Brewster as she prepared The Black Jacobins for the London stage in 1986 and encouraging Carolyn Fick as she developed her book, The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990). 39 4...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... significance. For Dessalines, the achieve-
ment of the revolution was not only to have overturned the brutal system of racial slavery on
which the colonization of Saint-Domingue—then the most profitable colony in the world—had
depended, but also to have exacted justice on behalf of both African...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 213–222.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Caribe , edited by Estanislao Gacitúa and Carlos Sojo, with Shelton H. Davis. San José, Costa Rica: FLASCO and Banco Mundial, 2000. “Motion in the System: Coffee, Color, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue.” Review 5, no. 3 (1982): 331–88. “Caribbean Peasants and World...
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