AFST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blackbirding, Involuntary Servitude, William Tecumseh Sherman
2 Nov 2016
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Freedom dreams: black life in the americas before and after the civil war. Slaves and the revolution of 1776: black as anti-citizens / enemies of the social contract. Blacks anti citizen (enemy) in the u. s. Minority ethnic group in control over several other minorities. Dessalines leads to independence in 1804, after napoleon re-legalizes slavery and attempts to reconquer haiti. No white, no matter what his nation could come to haiti as master or property owner (naturalized whites who renounce slavery, or fought on the side of the revolutionaries exempted) Constitution proclaimed that all haitians would be henceforth known as black. All those who want to join haiti are welcome to change their official identity and become black". White fought on side of haitians in revolution. Not every narrative becomes a part of the corpus , the standard historical narrative received and accepted by various groups as the past.
