Title: The Haitian Revolution
Subtitle: An Insignificant Revolution
Subject Classification:  Sociology, History, Philosophy  
BIC Classification: HBTP, JHM
BISAC Classification: SOC026000, HIS006000, POL062000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Feb 2027
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80866-042-9
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80866-043-6

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Description

This work argues that the usurpation of the Haitian Revolution by the Affranchis, petit-bourgeois Black (Creole) landowners and mulatto elites, from the African leadership on the island seeking total freedom from the mercantilism and liberalism of the capitalist world-system under European hegemony, rendered it the Haitian Revolution an insignificant Black bourgeois revolution focused on racial vindicationism and equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution with whites within the denouement of the aforementioned systemicity, i.e., the mercantilism and liberalism of the Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. The latter move placed the Revolution on par with the American one, which was a counterrevolution to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade under mercantilism and liberalism. The work concludes that had the Revolution remained under either the directorship of the African leadership seeking to implement their (communal) lakou system throughout the island, or the Kojèveian synthesis of Dessalines, it would have become a significant revolution, by universalizing class over race, thereby offering a counter systemicity to the Protestant/Catholic Ethic and the spirit of capitalism under European and American hegemony via the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism of the Africans.

Biography

Author(s):  Dr Paul C. Mocombe is a Haitian philosopher and sociologist whose work centers on social theory, postcolonialism, and the constitution of identity in the African diaspora. Originally from Oboy, Haiti, he studied at Florida Atlantic University, USA. He is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Keiser University, Florida, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Sociology, West Virginia State University, USA.

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