Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

Part 3 of 3. How do scholars live with a history this violent? Dr. Daut talks about hope and about the people of independent Haiti who carried their former enslavers' names on their bodies. She explains how Haitian sovereignty was compromised from outside, and what reparations would mean. She closes with what she left out of the book: Saint-Domingue as a carceral colony, an idea she takes up again in her biography of Christophe (#80).

Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/neg-mawon/2027-04-05/transcript