Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution History & Film Studies to correct their course today

to correct their course today for a better and more balanced and peaceful tomorrow

Bateman deconstructed the flimsy edifice of celebrity

*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the fighting*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsEven before the American Revolution

Congratulations to the authors and to the editors

so she feels honor-bound to investigate

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution History & Film Studies to correct their course todayModernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (17911804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western