La Persistance de l’Ancien Régime à Haïti: mode de production et idéologie nationaliste

Paul Cheney
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Abstract: From the de facto independence that Saint-Domingue enjoyed from France beginning in 1798 through successive regimes in the post-independence period, Haitian nationalism was always grounded in anti-slavery ideology. At the same time, abolitionist regimes sought to maintain a plantation complex that produced sugar on large agro-industrial enterprises; these plantations, as it turned out, could not function without the maintenance of a heavily coerced labor force. This article traces the continuities between old regime Saint-Domingue and post-abolition regimes. Despite the foundational ideology of abolition, constitutional dispositions—notably regimes of exception on the countryside—were designed to keep a coerced labor force working in sugar plantations ; in the domain of foreign trade policy, Haitian leaders compromised with hostile, often slaveholding foreign powers in order maintain their country's position as an exporter of tropical commodities.

Keywords: Haitian Revolution; political economy; empire; révolution haïtienne; économie politique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-18
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Published in La Révolution française - Cahiers de l’Institut d’histoire de la Révolution française, 2018, Économie politique et Révolution française, 14, ⟨10.4000/lrf.2051⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/lrf.2051

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