Unsilencing the Past: The Haitian Revolution
Unsilencing the Past: The Haitian Revolution
Black History Month
Date: Wednesday 09 October 2019
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Venue: The Hunterian Museum
Category: Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Rachel Douglas
Website: www.eventbrite.com/e/unsilencing-the-haitian-revolution-clr-james-and-the-black-jacobins-tickets-68638554765?utm_term=eventurl_text
Profits from slavery transformed Glasgow. Haiti was one of the most intensive forms of Caribbean plantation slavery and the site of the Haitian slave-led revolution leading to independence (1804). How has Haiti been held up as a beacon to unsilence the past? CLR James’s classic anticolonial history shows the way. This public Black History Month lecture launches Rachel Douglas's new book Making the Black Jacobins: CLR James and the Drama of History (Duke University Press):
www.dukeupress.edu/making-the-black-jacobins