Awakening the Ashes
The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slaver...
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| description | The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery, outlaw color prejudice, and forbid colonialism, Haitians established their nation in a hostile Atlantic World. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout the rest of the Americas and foreign nations and empires repeatedly attacked Haitian sovereignty. Yet Haitian writers and politicians successfully defended their independence while planting the ideological roots of egalitarian statehood. In Awakening the Ashes , Marlene L. Daut situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1721342026-02-19T05:04:56Z Awakening the Ashes Daut, Marlene L. Haitian Revolution and independence Caribbean Sovereignty Philosophy of History Age of Revolutions Slavery and Abolition Colonial History Indigenous history of the Caribbean Slave Revolt and Rebellion Marronnage Historiography Social History History from Below Romanticism Latin American poetry Caribbean Modernity Caribbean literary history Slavery in the Atlantic World Decolonization Decolonial Studies American Imperialism Empire French colonialism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTS Slavery and abolition of slavery thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTV Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideas thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and as its thinkers and fighters blazed the path to universal freedom, they forced anticolonial, antislavery, and antiracist ideals into modern political grammar. The first state in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery, outlaw color prejudice, and forbid colonialism, Haitians established their nation in a hostile Atlantic World. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout the rest of the Americas and foreign nations and empires repeatedly attacked Haitian sovereignty. Yet Haitian writers and politicians successfully defended their independence while planting the ideological roots of egalitarian statehood. In Awakening the Ashes , Marlene L. Daut situates famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers within the global history of ideas, showing how their systems of knowledge and interpretation took center stage in the Age of Revolutions. While modern understandings of freedom and equality are often linked to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man or the US Declaration of Independence, Daut argues that the more immediate reference should be to what she calls the 1804 Principle that no human being should ever again be colonized or enslaved, an idea promulgated by the Haitians who, against all odds, upended French empire. 2026-02-19T05:04:55Z 2026-02-19T05:04:55Z 2026-02-18T15:35:16Z 2023 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109997 9781469674766 9798890858115 9781469674759 9781469679556 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172134 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109997/4/9781469679556.pdf The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469674766_Daut 10.5149/9781469674766_Daut f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 9781469674766 9798890858115 9781469674759 9781469679556 The University of North Carolina Press 440 Chapel Hill open access |
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