The European Enlightenment and the Haitian Revolution

In the early 90s as Haitian anthropologists Michelle Rolf Trio wrote a brilliant book called Silencing the Past and in that book he has a chapter called Unthinkable Revolution. In August of 1791 African slaves both having arrived recently from Africa are having born in Saint-Domingue organized clandestinely the world's first successful slave revolution. The people at the time couldn't conceptualize that these black slaves were envisioning freedom, using revolutionary warfare to achieve that freedom. That continues to pose challenges us for today.