Haitian Revolution

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/4/2021
  

  Overturning Five Myths of the Haitian Revolution

  by Julia Gaffield

  Many understandings of the Haitian Revolution, from its intellectual and political roots, to its military progress, to its political consequences, are at best half-truths. And it did not entail "white genocide." 

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• SOURCE: U.S. Intellectual History Blog
  7/24/2021
  

  Burning It All Down

  by L.D. Burnett

  Louis Trouillot's commentary on historiography and the slippage between history as fact and history as narrative shows how academic gatekeepers who resist revisionist challenges to their fields play into the hands of bad faith actors who would prefer to silence historians entirely. 

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• 7/25/2021
  

  Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti

  by Alan J. Singer

  "The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/21/2021
  

  The United States Owes Haiti a Debt it Can't Repay

  by Annette Gordon-Reed

  The Haitian Revolution set in motion events that transformed France, North America, and the Caribbean, but conflicts were invariably resolved at the expense of independent Haiti. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/11/2021
  

  The Historical, Political And Social Conditions That Led Haiti To Turbulence

  Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  7/5/2021
  

  AAIHS Book Club: Jean Casimir's "The Haitians" (Convenes Online in August)

  The African American Intellectual History Society will convene an online book club discussing Jean Casimir's "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" with events beginning in August. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/4/2021
  

  What The Haitian Revolution Tells Us About The U.S. Movement For Racial Equality

  Historian Marlene Daut on the significance of the Haitian Revolution for America's unfinished struggle for racial equality. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  1/4/2020
  

  Who was Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Why Does He Matter Now?

  by Julia Gaffield

  The anniversary of Haitian independence is occasion to rethink the legacy of the nation's first head of state, the uncompromising opponent of slavery and colonialism Jean-Jacques Dessalines. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/23/19
  

  Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’

  by Marlene Daut

  With “Black Panther” receiving multiple Oscar nods, it’s time to look at the closest thing to Wakanda that has existed: the Kingdom of Hayti.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Black Star
  9-26-13
  

  15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools

  The Atlanta Black Star features slave revolts brushed under the rug in Western textbooks.