Scholars insist Saint-Domingue was central to Western civilization, not marginal
Evidence
A century and a half later, another Martinican, Aimé Césaire, would similarly insist that “to study Saint-Domingue is to study one of the origins, one of the sources, of contemporary Western civilization.” Both writers insisted that rather than being seen as a place on the margins of Europe and its development, Saint-Domingue must be seen as central to this history. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 47
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Connects to the historiographical re-centering of the Caribbean and Atlantic world elsewhere in the reader’s colonial/Atlantic history material.
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- Saint-Domingue’s history belongs at the center of Western civilization, not its margins (similarity 0.93)
- Moreau compared Saint-Domingue’s destruction to ancient great civilizations (similarity 0.83)
- Regional geography within Saint-Domingue shaped the revolution’s course. (similarity 0.82)
- Saint-Domingue’s slaves were mostly African, making the revolution partly an African revolution (similarity 0.82)
- Saint-Domingue grew from frontier into the world’s most valuable colony within a century (similarity 0.80)
- Geographic fragmentation forced Saint-Domingue’s regions to develop in isolation from one another. (similarity 0.80)
- Saint-Domingue’s colonists were more creole than French in interests and identity (similarity 0.80)
- Hispaniola’s marginalization within the Spanish empire enabled the later rise of French Saint-Domingue (similarity 0.80)
- The Haitian Revolution was itself largely an African revolution (similarity 0.79)
- Saint-Domingue’s prosperity flowed from defying metropolitan trade regulation (similarity 0.79)
- The Saint-Domingue revolt escalated into empire-wide emancipation (similarity 0.79)