The Haitians : a decolonial history /
Casimir, Jean,author.
Dubois, Laurent,1971-translator.
Mignolo, Walter,writer of foreword.
"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Resisting the production of sufferers -- Colonial thought -- Slaves or peasants -- The pursuit of impossible segregation -- The citizen property-owner -- Public order and communal order -- The power and beauty of a sovereign people -- An independent state without a sovereign people -- The state in the nineteenth century.
"In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-Domingue as the richest colony of the eighteenth century. Rather, it begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the U.S. occupation in 1915"--
Sovereignty.