Monthly Archives: October 2021

Liberty or Death: Jean Jacques Dessalines, Le Cap, Haiti, 8 April 1804

Reposted from The Black Agenda Review. Jean-Jacques Dessalines’s 8 April 1804 proclamation to the Haitian people is among the most stunning critiques of race, slavery, colonialism, and white barbarity to have emerged in modern history. It is also a profoundly radical statement on Black freedom and self-determination, and the morality of revolutionary violence. On January […]

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