Slaveholding intellectuals suppressed Haiti’s revolution more effectively than owners could

Evidence

The slaves of Haiti were in no way passive recipients. Haiti burned the ears of the slave owners in the New World at the beginning of the nineteenth century. They whispered its name, futilely conspiring to deny its legend and its very existence to their properties. But it was their ideologues, their intellectuals, their academies that succeeded in the larger suppression of the fact. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 737

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the suppression of Black radical achievements by academic canon, echoing how Du Bois was marginalized — relates to the reader’s quondam arc of the tradition’s rise and suppression.