The colonial system unveiled / [electronic resource]
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin,baron de,-1820?
Bongie, Chris.
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution    (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as    an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory over    their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in    1804 is being newly heralded not only as a seminal moment in the    transnational formation of the 'black Atlantic' but as the most    far-reaching manifestation of 'Radical Enlightenment'.    The best known Haitian writer to emerge in the years after the revolution    is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who authored over ten books and pamphlets    between 1814 and his murder in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le    système colonial dévoilé (1814), provides a moving invocation of the    horrors of slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing    critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the    anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Césaire, Fanon, and Sartre.        Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of the    colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across the    humanities.    
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Marlene Daul -- Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le système colonial dévoilé / Doris Garraway -- Memories of development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the performance of literacy / Chris Bongie -- Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Nick Nesbitt.
Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution    (1791-1804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as    an event of world-historical importance. The former slaves' victory over    their French masters and the creation of the independent nation of Haiti in    1804 is being newly heralded not only as a seminal moment in the    transnational formation of the 'black Atlantic' but as the most    far-reaching manifestation of 'Radical Enlightenment'.    The best known Haitian writer to emerge in the years after the revolution    is Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), who authored over ten books and pamphlets    between 1814 and his murder in 1820. His first and most incendiary work, Le    système colonial dévoilé (1814), provides a moving invocation of the    horrors of slavery in pre-revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Its trailblazing    critique of colonialism anticipates by over a hundred years the    anticolonial politics (and poetics) of Césaire, Fanon, and Sartre.        Translated here for the first time, Vastey's forceful unveiling of the    colonial system will be compulsory reading for scholars across the    humanities.    
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, -1820?
Slavery