FROM THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION TO RACIAL CAPITALISM

the timelessness of resistance practices against oppression in Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

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Keywords:

Review, Haitian Revolution, Resistance, Racial solidarity

Abstract

Analyzing the work Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora, written in 2021 by Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina, Crystal Nicole Eddins, this review focus on how the author addressed the role and significance of the emerging racial solidarity between Africans and Creoles in the success of the Haitian Revolution. The argument that maroon communities and the practice of sacred rituals played a central role in Haiti's quest for sovereignty underpins her thesis, challenging the notion that the French Revolution was the primary driving force behind the Haitian uprising. Therefore, Eddins' work is undeniably relevant to the historiographical debate, particularly concerning the decolonization of knowledge on the subject.

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Author Biography

RAFAEL LIMA IAMPOLSKY, Universidade de São Paulo

Graduando em História pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

References

EDDINS, Crystal Nicole. Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. New York, Cambridge University Press. 2021:i-i.

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BAY, Edna G. The Kopjito or Queen Mother of Precolonial Dahomey: Towards an Institutional History. In. KAPLAN, Flora E.S. (ed.). Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and Power: Case Studies in African Gender. New York, New York: New York Academy of Sciences. 1997.

FICK, Carolyn E. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below. Knoxville, Univ. of Tennessee Press. 1990.

FOUCHARD, Jean. The Haitian Maroons: Liberty or Death. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan. E. W. Blyden Press. 1981.

Published

2024-12-20