Caribbean writers framed the Haitian Revolution as a template for decolonization

Evidence

C. L. R. James wrote The Black Jacobins, which remains the classic account of the revolution. James, looking toward the struggles for independence that he saw emerging in Africa, saw the story as an example of both the possibilities and dangers of such struggles. … The Martinican poet and activist Aimé Césaire similarly noted, a few decades later, that Haiti was where the “colonial problem,” which the twentieth century was “trying to resolve,” was first posed in all its complexity—where the knot of colonialism was first tied, and where it was first untied. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 22

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• XREF: connects to: Caribbean rebels consciously modeled their revolts on the Haitian revolution; The Haitian Revolution inspired slave revolts across the Americas; Haiti’s revolution directly inspired slave revolts across the New World — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 739 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Caribbean rebels consciously modeled their revolts on the Haitian revolution; The Haitian Revolution inspired slave revolts across the Americas; Haiti’s revolution directly inspired slave revolts across the New World — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 739 (+6 more)