L7 - Black Atlantic

Question 1

Baron de Vastey (1781-1820)

The colonial system unveiled, 1814

Answer 1

Haiti’s ‘most distinguished political writer’ (Bongie 2014:30) - named and shamed atrocities, emphasising systemic rather than individual character of colonialism = colonialism dehumanises both sides

Question 2

Black atlantic?

Answer 2

atlantic as one single, complex unit of analysis to understand modernity (transnational/cultural)

Question 3

(Gilroy 1993) black atlantic

Answer 3

‘a political and cultural formation transcending the structures of the nation state and the constraints of ethnicity and national particularity’

transatlantic slavery as global history - a general analytical framework