The articulation of a universal right to freedom from enslavement in the 1801 Constitution of
Saint-Domingue [which would become Haiti] points both to the potential of the law to depict …

To rethink human rights when they have become little more than hollow ideology in the
hands not only of nation-states but of the UN as well requires a radical change in …

Before 1492, European feudal practices racialized subjects in order to dispossess, enslave
and colonize them. Enslavement of different peoples was a centuries old custom authorized …

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French colony of Saint Domingue, the foundation of
France's colonial empire and the foremost wealth-producing colony of its time, had become …

Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture's 1791 declaration judiciously centers the
intricate interdependence of the written and unwritten law of race and draws attention to the …

The Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804 led to the establishment of Haiti as the world's first
independent Black Republic and has long held a fascination for a diverse array of writers …

The Haitian Revolution (1789-1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and
terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period …

ABSTRACT After the Helsinki Accords, the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire, and
the collapse of states in Africa and elsewhere, many in the West have come to envisage the …

In this important book, leading scholar Alex Dupuy provides a critical reinterpretation of the
Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Dupuy evaluates the French colonial context of Saint …

WHILE THE FOCUS regarding property and human rights has been, in the main, on issues
of intellectual property and indigenous rights, a more fundamental synergy between these …