The Unfinished Revolution —— Haiti, Black Sovereignty And Power In The Nineteenth-century Atlantic World

----- 未完成的革命：海地，19世纪大西洋世界的黑人主权和权力

ISBN: 9781786941619 出版年：2019 页码：256 Karen Salt Liverpool University Press

The unfinished revolution: haiti, black sovereignty and power in the nineteenth-century atlantic world addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, the unfinished revolution examines the charged upheaval that haiti's arrival caused in the atlantic world. Salt revisits this site of contestation in order to critically reflect on the ways that brokers from haiti and across the atlantic responded to the political existence of a nation forged from the fires of revolution and consistently racialized as black by other nation-states. These sovereign bodies-who salt argues took their political cues regarding who can be sovereign from the treaty of westphalia (1648)-struggled to accept the existence of the independent nation-state of haiti. Examining haiti through the lens of blackness and sovereignty, salt produces an original and compelling account of the challenges and constraints haiti has encountered in fighting for its continued political existence.