White intellectuals and academies suppressed the historical truth of the Haitian Revolution.

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. Their weaponry was ridicule while those of their bourgeois masters were economic and diplomatic strangulation. And in this century, in due course, when the memory of the revolt had faded among most of the descendants of the master and slave classes of the Old and New Worlds, the still classic and unsurpassed study of the revolution by James appeared. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 737

Categorization

• XREF: This is the suppression mechanism central to Robinson’s argument about how the Black radical tradition was erased and then recovered by C.L.R. James.