Democrary After Slavery In Haiti Summary
Sheller, Mimi. Democrary After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.
In the quest to learn more about these two nations after emancipation,The author Mimi Sheller’s main goal of the entire book is to highlight both Haiti and Jamaica as they “developed a shared radical vision of democracy based on the post-slavery ideology of freedom”. Both countries had suffered harsh treatment during the era of slavery and both were working hard towards gaining equal rights soon after. Of course, whites at the time were not going to simply hand over their rights and privaledges freely. Because of this restriction on the part of whites , the author says that bothe nations’ requests were always “accompanied by demands for (and moral justification of) some degree of economic redistribution and land reform as raparation for generations of enslavement”. This form of ideology would soon lead to a creation of their own form of capitalism and democracy. Of course both sides would take different …show more content…
The first is the Haitian Revolution which of course helped to secure Haiti’s freedom more quickly. The second revolt is the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica which did not gurantee full equality. In both of these revolts one can see based on the author’s interpretation of the events that these two events had good intentions but soon failed to capitalize on them. One example that Sheller mentions is how after the Haitian Revolution occurred, and Boyer was removed from power, “the liberal revolution failed to consolidate a new government and instability led to party fragmentation along colour lines”. What this tells the reader is that Haiti definetly struggled in order to create their new form of democracy that was to ensure more involvement in political affairs. For Jamaica this was a different
In the quest to learn more about these two nations after emancipation,The author Mimi Sheller’s main goal of the entire book is to highlight both Haiti and Jamaica as they “developed a shared radical vision of democracy based on the post-slavery ideology of freedom”. Both countries had suffered harsh treatment during the era of slavery and both were working hard towards gaining equal rights soon after. Of course, whites at the time were not going to simply hand over their rights and privaledges freely. Because of this restriction on the part of whites , the author says that bothe nations’ requests were always “accompanied by demands for (and moral justification of) some degree of economic redistribution and land reform as raparation for generations of enslavement”. This form of ideology would soon lead to a creation of their own form of capitalism and democracy. Of course both sides would take different …show more content…
The first is the Haitian Revolution which of course helped to secure Haiti’s freedom more quickly. The second revolt is the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica which did not gurantee full equality. In both of these revolts one can see based on the author’s interpretation of the events that these two events had good intentions but soon failed to capitalize on them. One example that Sheller mentions is how after the Haitian Revolution occurred, and Boyer was removed from power, “the liberal revolution failed to consolidate a new government and instability led to party fragmentation along colour lines”. What this tells the reader is that Haiti definetly struggled in order to create their new form of democracy that was to ensure more involvement in political affairs. For Jamaica this was a different