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Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
About this book
Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Prologue: On the Origins of BlackAtlantic Humanism
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Baron de Vastey in Haitian (Revolutionary) Context
- Chapter 2 What’s in a Name? Unfolding the Consequences of a Mistaken Identity
- Chapter 3 The Uses of Vastey: Reading Black Sovereignty in the Atlantic Public Sphere
- Chapter 4 Baron de Vastey’s Testimonio and the Politics of Black Memory
- Chapter 5 Baron de Vastey and the Twentieth-Century Theater of Haitian Independence
- Epilogue: Colonialism After Sovereignty: The Colonial Relation in René Philoctète’s Monsieur de Vastey (1975)
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Names of Publications (Newspapers, Journals, Magazines)
- Places