Awakening the Ashes (Part 2/3): An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. Conversations with Dr. Marlene Daut

What didn’t we discuss in this wide-ranging part 2/3 discussion with Dr. Marlene Daut on the intellectual history of the Haitain revolution?

• Well, she took a hammer to Bonaparte and his white supremacist sympathizers.
• We talked about how the terms enslaved & enslavers can be unintentionally problematic.
• You will learn how Haitian History is both local and global. Other topics covered by Dr. Marlene L. Daut: some of the famous and lesser-known eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Haitian revolutionaries, pamphleteers, and political thinkers whose extraordinary deeds, coupled with their systems of knowledge and interpretation played center stage during the Age of Revolutions; the 1801 Haitian constitution;
• Louverture’s definition of “free”;
• that deeds & discourse are two sides of the same coin (my framing);
• We touched briefly on the only none cross-dresser I know of in Haitian history– Romaine la Prophetess;
• French hypocrisy (surprise!) on “universalism” and the Rights of Man.

Stay until the end of this episode to hear an original Cameroonian piece by the Theologian, Dr. Roch Ntankeh. This outro was commissioned & licensed by Rasnablaj Media Group. All rights reserved.