Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Who was the Baron de Vastey, secretary to King Henry Christophe, and why did his pen make so many enemies? Dr. Marlene Daut explains the "paper war" between Haiti's North and South. She shows how early Haitian writers answered the pseudoscience of race with their own idea of regeneration, and why reading Vastey changes how we understand the Black Atlantic. We start with a question for her: are we living in a golden age of Haitian studies?

Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/neg-mawon/2027-03-27/transcript