Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution

Author/Contributor(s):	Fischer, Sibylle
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	04/30/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A study of the ways that knowledge of the slave revolt in Haiti was denied/repressed/disavowed within the network of slave-owning states and plantation societies of the New World, and the effects and meaning of this disavowal.