Book Talk - Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution |
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Wednesday, February 21 | 12:00 to 1:00pm | Sterling Memorial Library & Zoom | RSVP Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a conversation with Marlene Daut, professor of French and African American studies at Yale University, about her book Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery. 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. |