![]() ![]() Cutting across disciplines and conventional geographies of analysis, the Haitian Revolution has been a hot topic in the Anglophone North Atlantic academy for the nearly two decades-as it should have been, without question, all along. ![]() James’s great book, “has seldom been appreciated.”Įchoing Du Bois’ 1896 lament, Eugene Genovese’s 1979 claim about the historiographical marginality of the Haitian Revolution in general, and Toussaint in particular, does not map so easily onto the terrain of scholarship on the age of revolutions today. Du Bois wrote almost eighty years ago, as might be written now despite C.L.R. “The role which the great Negro Toussaint, called L’Ouverture, played in the history of the United States,” W.E.B. ![]()
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