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MARLENE DAUT on the Haitian Revolution
Manage episode 434427449 series 3269825
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, discusses the incredible 13-year period from 1791 to 1804 which saw self-liberated slaves, not least leader Toussaint Louverture, overcome French colonial rule to win freedom on Haiti. Including:
[01:00] - Reflections on the complexity of the Haitian Revolution
[05:15] - The intellectual roots of the Haitian Revolution
[09:30] - Metropolitan France's negative / imperialist attitudes towards Toussaint Louverture and Saint-Domingue
[14:00] - Bringing Haitian writers' thoughts and ideas to life
[18:00] - Competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution - and what the revolutionaries said themselves
[20:50] - Spelling out the end of slavery during the Revolution
[22:30] - The challenges of implementing liberty after centuries of enslaved labour (or, how it all went wrong)
[25:30] - Writing the biography of Henri-Christophe, the first king of Haiti
[28:00] - Race and racism in Haiti's Anglophone historiography.
120 episodes
Manage episode 434427449 series 3269825
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University, discusses the incredible 13-year period from 1791 to 1804 which saw self-liberated slaves, not least leader Toussaint Louverture, overcome French colonial rule to win freedom on Haiti. Including:
[01:00] - Reflections on the complexity of the Haitian Revolution
[05:15] - The intellectual roots of the Haitian Revolution
[09:30] - Metropolitan France's negative / imperialist attitudes towards Toussaint Louverture and Saint-Domingue
[14:00] - Bringing Haitian writers' thoughts and ideas to life
[18:00] - Competing narratives about the Haitian Revolution - and what the revolutionaries said themselves
[20:50] - Spelling out the end of slavery during the Revolution
[22:30] - The challenges of implementing liberty after centuries of enslaved labour (or, how it all went wrong)
[25:30] - Writing the biography of Henri-Christophe, the first king of Haiti
[28:00] - Race and racism in Haiti's Anglophone historiography.
120 episodes
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