The Colonial System Unveiled

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Reviews
'In this first-rate critical edition, Bongie illuminates the significance of Baron de Vastey's Le systeme colonial devoile well beyond the field of Haitian Studies. Indeed, he argues that The Colonial System Unveiled "can legitimately be considered the first systemic critique of colonialism ever written, certainly from the perspective of a colonized subject". With the book now available in English for the first time, many new readers will be amply persuaded.'

Ada Ferrer, New York University 'The volume performs the great service of renewing attention to the remarkable and little understood figure of Vastey, and more broadly to the need for further research on a less well-known period of the Haitian revolutionary era.'

John Savage and Sean Anderson, H-France Review 'The volume performs the great service of renewing attention to the remarkable and little understood figure of Vastey, and more broadly to the need for further research on a less well-known period of the Haitian revolutionary era. ...This volume holds great interest not only for specialists of the Haitian Revolution, French Empire, or Atlantic World slavery, but also for scholars of transhistorical African Diaspora studies and a broader postcolonial intellectual history.'

John Savage and Sean Anderson, Lehigh University, H-France Review