The Haitian Revolution (Part 2)
Yoshie Furuhashi
furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Oct 14 15:37:47 PDT 2000
>The Knight article supports my thesis. Why wasn't the US one big Haiti? In
>fact, how was slavery possible at all? In fact, unless they had radical
>justice, most slaves accommodated themselves to slavery. The French
>revolution helped the Carribbean slaves formulate a radical justice. Lacking
>this, American slaves pretty much lived with the constraints that existed,
>more or less unhappily. --jks
No, the article doesn't support your thesis. For an explanation, see
my last post on Genovese.
Yoshie
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