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Author Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820? author.

Title The colonial system unveiled / by Baron de Vastey ; translated and edited by Chris Bongie
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Marlene Daul -- Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le système colonial dévoilé / Doris Garraway -- Memories of development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the performance of literacy / Chris Bongie -- Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Nick Nesbitt
Summary The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
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Subject Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820?
SUBJECT Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, baron de, 1781-1820? fast
Subject Slavery -- Haiti -- History
Colonies.
colonies.
HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
Colonies
Slavery
Kolonialismus
Sklaverei
SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058354
Subject Haiti
Haiti
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bongie, Chris, editor, translator.
LC no. 2014497820
ISBN 9781781385937
1781385939
9781781387306
1781387303
Other Titles Système colonial dévoilé. English