Haiti’s second slave era recapitulated the genocidal dynamics of its first

Evidence

In its second slave era, then, Haiti had ultimately recapitulated some of the phenomenology of its first. Its slave system was cruel and genocidal; its master class made up of destitute aristocrats and others just as desperate to achieve the wealth and titles of noble status; its laboring class increasingly African; and its whites differentiated between the few who succeeded and then absented themselves and the many whose only achievement was as minor functionaries. One other such reoccurrence was marronage. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 729

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘marronage’ as a recurring phenomenon of the Black radical tradition — enslaved people escaping into wilderness freedom.