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Forgotten Island of the Liberator: Haiti's Influences on Victor Schoelcher's Abolitionism, 1833-1848 : Forgotten Island of the liberator: Haitis influences on Victor Schœlchers abolitionism, 1833-1848
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- Issue Date
- 2020-05
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Citation
- Histoire Sociale, Vol.53 No.107, pp.69-90
- Abstract
- What fashioned Victor Schoelcher's radical abolitionism? Does his 1848 demand for the immediate abolition of slavery and full citizenship for the formerly enslaved testify loyalty to universal values of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution? Incorporating transatlantic perspectives, this article excavates an unacknowledged element in the making of Schoelcher's abolitionism by reassessing his ties with Haiti. As he was a passionate defender of the Haitian Revolution and also a very severe critic of the Republic of Haiti, the crucial components of his abolitionism were derived from his wrestling with these contradictions. Although his interaction with Haiti ultimately contributed to "Silencing the Haitian Revolution," we also find an invisible but significant dialogue between the first emancipation and the second one in 1848, and also between metropolitan abolitionists and the enslaved in the colonies.
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- 0018-2257
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