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The Haitian Revolution: An Insignificant Revolution?
Paul C. Mocombe
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2023.06.002
West Virginia State University, West Virginia, USA
This work posits that the Haitian Revolution became an insignificant Revolution the minute that it was usurped by the Affranchis class, the mulatto elites and petit-bourgeois creole blacks, seeking equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with their former colonial masters, from the Africans who commenced the event on the night of August 14th, 1791. Whereas the Africans, I conclude, sought total freedom from the mercantilist and liberal order of the whites, which made the Haitian Revolution significant, the vindicationism sought by the Affranchis class undermined the agential initiatives of the Africans rendering the Revolution revolutionarily insignificant.
African-Americanization, phenomenological structuralism, Vodou, Religiosity, Black Diaspora, dialectical, anti-dialectical, Haitian Epistemology, Vilokan/Haitian Idealism
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