Hegel and Haiti

Slavery. Power relations. Western political philosophy. Enlightenment thinkers. Colonial slave laborers. Dutch hegemony in the slave trade. Portugal, France, England, Denmark. Hobbes. Locke. Sugar. Brutal intensification of labor explotation. Jacques Rousseau never in his writings mentions the Code Noir. Toussaint-Louverture. Exclusion. Saint-Domingue 1791, colonial plantations: sugar, tobacco, indigo. Anti-slavery mouvement. Live Freely or Die. Rather death Than Slavery. Haitian Revolution: the most radical political revolution of that age. Struggle for independence. Liberty or Dearh!