Awakening the Ashes by Marlene L. Daut - 9781469674742

Name: Awakening the Ashes by Marlene L. Daut - 9781469674742
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

Awakening the AshesAn Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution\nAuthor(s): Marlene L. Daut\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469674742, 978-1469674742\nSynopsis\nThe Haitian Revolution was a powerful blow against colonialism and slavery, and 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. \n\nIn Awakening the Ashes, M.