Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
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Historian Julia Gaffield discusses her recent biography on Haiti’s first leader, whose life she argues was unfairly tarnished by biased verdicts of history.
As Black immigrants, Haitians are doubly marginalized by structural racism embedded in US immigration policies and the broader societal racism experienced by Black Americans.
The Haitian revolution was the first by a former slave colony and was to inspire other emancipation movements across the New World.
Why the rest of the world needs to listen to Haitian voices and take a longer view of Haiti’s unique history.
For the revolutionary Frantz Fanon it was not enough to celebrate the achievements of decolonisation. It was necessary to educate, to strain at the limits of national freedom and to provoke debate.
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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