The brother was another towering Haitian intellectual, a historian of the colonial period whose Études sur l’Histoire d’Haïti sought to piece together the fractured past of Saint-Domingue. He wrote in long, sweeping strokes, documenting the legal, social, and political structures that shaped colonial Haiti. His work, though extensive, left certain absences—especially regarding the indigenous history that preceded the colony. It was into those silences that Émile Nau would later write, not to correct Ardouin, but to expand the vision he had begun.
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