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Caribbean “Race Men”: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 9-23
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0003
- Article
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This paper reconsiders the work of two nineteenth-century Haitian authors, Demesvar Delorme and Louis Joseph Janvier, in light of their contributions to Haitian Atlantic humanism, a long-standing way of thinking the world through the nation state of Haiti in order to combat the twin axes of colonial racism and colonial slavery.