Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

✍ Scribed by Sibylle Fischer

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 375
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied/repressed/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal.

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