I recently acquired some new books on the Haitian Revolution for an upcoming conference. I will be given a paper at UTD’s Graduate School Symposium in April. I will look at the Haitian Revolution from a race relations perspective. I will argue that the Haitian Revolution anticipated universal emancipation and gave birth to ( universal) [...]
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Who do you say you are? By Jean H Charles This famous sentence uttered by Jesus the Christ “who do they say I am? “is at the heart of the Christian doctrine. The connection with God is a personal faith- driven discovery and manifestation that lead to love one’s God and to love thy neighbor [...]
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En me renversant,on n’a abattu à Saint-Domingue que le tronc de l’arbre de la liberté des nègres ; il repoussera par les racines, parce qu’elles sont profondes et nombreuses.–Toussaint Louverture
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Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World by Doris L. Garraway is supposed to be an adequate treatment on the importance of the Haitian Revolution. Professor Garraway is an excellent writer, having published a major work on The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (Duke University Press, [...]
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“In overthrowing me, you have cut only the trunk of the tree of liberty. It will spring again from the roots for they are numerous and deep.”– Toussaint L’Ouverture, 1802
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