... 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 in...

... into things, beasts, or mongrels.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Code Noir Malick Ghachem Haitian Revolution slave law Baron de Vastey Dayan's blistering indictment of Louis XIV's Code Noir presents it as “the most barbaric product of the Enlightenment” (201). Relying heavily on Louis Sala...

... 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 for...

... évolution (Port-au-Prince: n.p However, Haitian anthropological thinking expressed in antiracist 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...

... 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 of Fulbright and ACLS/Mellon fellowships. His work has...

... reinterprets the typical mixture of anti-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...

... this defense of equality and popular sovereignty were displaced and transformed, 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...