June 2009
9 posts
“This is but a drink of water to what I have already suffered.”
– Marie Ursule during her torture and execution for leading a mass suicide of slaves In Dionne Brand, At the Full and Change of the Moon
“To take the measure of Haitian achievement, scholars must dig beneath ready-made...”
– Blackburn, on the impact of the Haitian Revolution
“Though a pacific emancipation, whether in Saint Domingue or the United States,...”
– Blackburn
“This assertion was easier to reconcile with the enslavement of blacks than might...”
– Robin Blackburn on the “inalienable Rights” expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/wm/63.4/blackburn.html
