We know revolutions by their archives. Or, as Michel-Rolph Trouillot noted almost 30 years ago in Silencing the Past, “the Haitian Revolution…entered history with the peculiar characteristic of being unthinkable even as it happened” (p. 73) because the narrative of revolution (as opposed to rebellion) was absent from the archival record assembled by French colonial officials.
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