The Haitian Revolution is not only one of the most important foundational moments in the emergence of the modern world, but also one of the most neglected within the social scientific literature. The following posts reflect on its omission from a new intellectual history of ‘equality’ and discuss how understandings of equality might be different if we took the Haitian Revolution seriously.
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FischerS (2004) Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, Durham: Duke University Press.
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GeggusDP (1989) Racial equality, slavery, and colonial secession during the Constituent Assembly. American Historical Review94(5): 1290–1308.
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JamesCLR (1989 [1963, 1938]) The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, 2nd edn. New York: Vintage Books.
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RosanvallonP (2013) The Society of Equals, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Sala-MolinsL (2006) Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment, trans. and intro. Conteh-Morgan J, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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StovallT (2006) Race and the making of the nation: Blacks in modern France. In: GomezMA (ed.) Diasporic Africa: A Reader, New York: New York University Press, pp. 200–218.
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TrouillotM-R (1995) Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, Boston: Beacon Press.
