Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism

The Resource Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism

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Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism

Statement of responsibility

Marlene Daut

Language

eng

Summary

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de Vastey

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

809/.93352996

Index

index present

LC call number

F1920.V37

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

The new urban Atlantic

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