Tout Moun, 2/11: The Pearl and the Machine

Episode 2/11 of Tout Moun, a Deep Dive series on the people who made the Haitian Revolution. We go inside Saint-Domingue on the eve of the Revolution, the richest colony in the world, built on sugar, coffee and the slave trade. We look at the castes that divided it, the terror that held it together, and the case of Nicolas Le Jeune. And we follow the lives that half a million captive people made inside the machine: Kreyòl, markets, dance and Vodou.

Read the full transcript on Jou: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/podcast/deep-dive/2026-11-02/transcript