@article{827507,
      recid = {827507},
      author = {Daut, Marlene.},
      title = {Baron de Vastey and the origins of Black Atlantic humanism  /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan US,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (275 pages).},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian  political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey  (1781-1820), 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.  Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of  Haiti's King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition  of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that  is much more closely associated with twentieth-century  writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé  Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and  theoretical connections among Vastey and these later  twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and  nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis  Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet  Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis  of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti's Baron de  Vastey.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/827507},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47067-6},
}