The Colonial System Unveiled

Baron de Vastey; Chris Bongie

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Baron de Vastey
Edited and translated by Chris Bongie

Publisher:: Liverpool University Press
Online publication date:: June 2017
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781781385937

Subjects:: American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, History

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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.

The volume performs the great service of renewing attention to the remarkable and little understood figure of Vastey, and more broadly to the need for further research on a less well-known period of the Haitian revolutionary era.
John Savage and Sean Anderson, H-France Review

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp vi-vii

List of Figures
pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-xi

Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti
pp 1-10

Jean Louis Vastey (1781–1820): A Biographical Sketch
pp 11-26

Introduction
pp 27-28

I - (1820): Death of a Scribe
pp 29-42

II - (1814): The Colonial System Restored
pp 43-62

III - (1814–2014): Reading the Protean Text
pp 63-69

Notes to Introduction
pp 70-80

The Colonial System Unveiled
pp 81-82

INTRODUCTION
pp 83-84

The Colonial System Unveiled
pp 85-145

Notes to The Colonial System Unveiled
pp 146-170

Supplementary Essays
pp 171-172

1 - Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory
pp 173-210

2 - Abolition, Sentiment, and the Problem of Agency in Le système colonial dévoilé
pp 211-246

3 - Memories of Development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the Performance of Literacy
pp 247-284

4 - Afterword: Vastey and the System of Colonial Violence
pp 285-300

Bibliography
pp 301-319

Index
pp 320-330

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