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 · Marlene L. Daut. In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new boo k Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, which was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan’s series in the New Urban Atlantic. Daut is Associate Professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute Author: Julia Gaffield.  · By Marlene L. Daut Professor Daut teaches American and African diaspora studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of “Baron de .  · Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. Marlene L. Daut. Springer, - Literary Criticism - pages. 0 Reviews. Focusing on Author Index:

Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic human. In , Vastey's Essai sur les causes de la révolution et des guerres civiles d'Hayti (), the first full-length xv xvi Prologue: On the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism history of Haiti written by a Haitian, appeared in Dutch translation.1 In , the Swiss anti-slavery historian Jean Charles Léonard (Sismonde) de Sismondi. Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey's extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism.

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. Authors. (view affiliations) Marlene L. Daut. Winner of the Haitian Studies Book Award. Brings to light the contributions of Haitian statesman Baron de Vastey in the development of postcolonial and critical race theory. Demonstrates the influence of de Vastey's writings and the work of prominent nineteenth and early twentieth-century abolitionists and anti-colonialists. Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism. Marlene L. Daut. In Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, ), Marlene Daut helps to resurrect the life and writings of one of Haiti’s most influential thinkers. Baron de Vastey is perhaps best known as Henri Christophe’s secretary in the years after Haitian independence.