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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.

Literature. --- Imperialism. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Literary History. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History and criticism. --- 18th century. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Literature   . --- Literature, Modern-18th century. --- Literature-History and criticism. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature, Modern—18th century. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, --- Influence. --- Since 1804 --- Haiti --- Haiti. --- History --- De Vastey, Pompée Valentin, --- Vastey, --- Ayiti --- Bohio --- Gaiti --- Haichi --- Hayti --- Haytian Republic --- Quisqueya --- Repiblik Ayiti --- Repiblik d Ayiti --- Republic of Haiti --- République d'Haïti --- Saint-Domingue