The Colonial System Unveiled

Système, Vastey’s use of in (as identified in footnote apparatus) ref1n23, ref2n28, ref3nn49–60, ref4n76, ref5n80, ref6n82, ref7n84, ref8n97, ref9nn99–102

Système, Vastey’s use of in (as identified in supplementary essays) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10n9, ref11n11, ref12, ref13

Griggs, Earl Leslie ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n1, ref7n4, ref8n9, ref9n18, ref10n48, ref11n61, ref12n105, ref13

Gronniosaw, Ukawsaw ref1

Gubitz, Friedrich Wilhelm ref1

Guybre, René ref1, ref2n22

Haiti

abolitionist state, as ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

humanitarian intervention, as site of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

indemnities paid for recognition of independence ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n48

neo-colonialism, subject to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

post/revolutionary state, as ref1, ref2, 10, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n71, ref12n107, ref13n20

see also Vastey, Jean Louis

Haiti (Saint-Domingue), history of

1791 (outbreak of slave revolt) ref1, ref2n70, ref3n76, ref4n93, ref5, ref6, ref7n5, ref8n7, ref9

1802–3 (French invasion) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n6, ref6n3, ref7n17, ref8n73, ref9n104, ref10n107, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; see also Leclerc, General; Louverture, Toussaint; Napoleon I

1804 (Declaration of Independence) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

1804–6 (Empire) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n27, ref6n3, ref7, ref8; see also Dessalines, Jean-Jacques

1807–20 (division into two states) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n20, ref5n105; see also Boyer, Jean-Pierre; Christophe, Henry; Pétion, Alexandre; post/revolutionary

1814 (planned restoration of slavery, Louis XVIII) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n4, ref6, ref7n2

1820 (reunification) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

1825 (provisional French recognition of independence) ref1, ref2, ref3n50

Haitian Revolutionary Studies ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n8, ref5n81

Hallward, Peter ref1, ref2

Haltunnen, Karen ref1, ref2nn21–2

Hammon, Britton ref1

Hanchard, Michael ref1

Hannemann, Johann Ludwig ref1, ref2n51

Hartman, Geoffrey ref1

Hartman, Saidiya ref1, ref2, ref3n21, ref4n4

Harvey, William Woodis ref1, ref2, ref3

Hatuey (Taino cacique) ref1, ref2n10, ref3, ref4n5

Hayward, Abraham ref1

Hector, Michel ref1, ref2n9

Henri (Taino cacique) ref1, ref2, ref3n21, ref4

Hilliard d’Auberteuil, Michel René ref1, ref2, ref3n88, ref4n92, ref5n97, ref6

Hinks, Peter ref1n42, ref2n8

Hugo, Victor, ref1n75

Hüne, Albert ref1

‘ideology of Literature’ ref1, ref2, ref3n11, ref4n13, ref5, ref6n21

Inginac, Joseph Balthazar ref1

Isert, Paul Erdmann ref1n27

Jacobs, Harriet ref1

James, C. L. R. ref1, ref2n70, ref3n82, ref4

James, Erica Caple ref1, ref2nn18–20

Jefferson, Thomas ref1, ref2, ref3n11, ref4n13, ref5, ref6n25, ref7, ref8

Jenson, Deborah ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n20, ref6n3, ref7n73

Johnson, Paul ref1

Jonaissant, Jean ref1, ref2

Juge, Jean-Baptiste (Comte de Terre-Neuve) ref1

Justamond, J. O. ref1n36

Justin, Michel-Placide ref1n11

Kant, Immanuel ref1n7

Kristeva, Julia ref1

Labat, Jean-Baptiste ref1n33, ref2, ref3

Lacroix, Pamphile de ref1n6, ref2n71

Ladvocat, Jean-Baptiste ref1n30, ref2n33

Laffon de Ladebat, Philippe Auguste ref1n21, ref2n38

Land, Isaac ref1n29

Laplace, François ref1n64

Larchevesque-Thibaud, Jean-Baptiste ref1, ref2n69, ref3

Las Casas, Bartolomé de ref1, ref2n12, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n5

Lataille (colonist) ref1, ref2

Lavaysse, Jean-François Dauxion ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n38, ref5n8, ref6, ref7n3

Le Vaillant, François ref1, ref2n26

Leborgne de Boigne, C. P. J. ref1n3

Leclerc, Victor Emmanuel, General ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n22, ref7n11, ref8n17, ref9n104, ref10, ref11, ref12

Leconte, Vergniaud ref1

Lejeune, Nicolas ref1, ref2, ref3n20

Lenoir, André ref1n11

Lewis, Gordon K. ref1

Lewis, Robert Benjamin ref1n53

Limonade, Julien Prévost, Comte de ref1, ref2, ref3n1, ref4n5, ref5n37, ref6n8, ref7n12, ref8n21, ref9n10

Linnaeus, Carolus ref1

Literary Gazette, The ref1

Long, Edward ref1, ref2n50, ref3n53

Louis XIV, King of France ref1, ref2n81, ref3n96

Louis XVIII, King of France ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5nn3–4

Louverture, François-Dominique-Toussaint ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n22, ref6n3, ref7n21, ref8n36, ref9n73, ref10n104, ref11n17, ref12

Malouet’s references to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n1

Vastey’s references to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n17, ref7

Macandal, François ref1n79

McClellan, James E. ref1n32, ref2n72, ref3

Mackenzie, Charles ref1

Madiou, Thomas ref1, ref2, ref3n4, ref4n12

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie ref1, ref2, ref3n53

Malouet, Pierre Victor ref1

‘colonial system’, definition of ref1, ref2n27, ref3, ref4, ref5

French Minister of the Marine (1814) ref1. ref2, ref3, ref4nn35–6, ref5n43, ref6n8

slavery, ‘reformist’ approach to ref1n25, ref2n28, ref3n62, ref4n11, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n7

Système, references to in Vastey’s ref1, ref2

Système, Vastey’s use of in ref1, ref2n29, ref3n1, ref4n3, ref5n103, ref6, ref7n7

see also Louverture, Toussaint

Manigat, Leslie F. ref1n2

Marie Catherine (maternal grandmother of Vastey) ref1n4

Marsters, Kate Ferguson ref1n34, ref2

Martellière, Jean-Jacques de la ref1

Marx, Karl ref1, ref2

Mazères (colonist) ref1n31, ref2n34, ref3, ref4n7

Meckel, Johann Friedrich, the Elder ref1, ref2n52

Medina, Franco de ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n41

Mentor, Étienne ref1n27

Métral, Antoine ref1nn3–4

Michelet Jules ref1

Mignolo, Walter ref1, ref2

Mirabeau, H. G. R., Comte de ref1

Mirzoeff, Nicholas ref1

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de ref1n9, ref2

Morales, Pablo ref1

Moreau de Saint-Méry, Médéric Louis Élie ref1n13, ref2n23, ref3n72

Système, references to in ref1, ref2, ref3

Système, Vastey’s use of in ref1n13, ref2n68, ref3nn83–6, ref4nn89–91, ref5nn93–4, ref6n98, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n15, ref12

Morin (colonist) ref1

Morrison, Toni ref1n20

Morse, Jedidiah ref1, ref2n56

Muthu, Sankar ref1n36

Napoleon I, Emperor of France ref1, ref2, ref3n21, ref4n32, ref5,

abdication(s) (1814–5) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n4, ref5n6, ref6, ref7

failed invasion of Saint-Domingue (1802–3) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n22, ref7, ref8, ref9

Nesbitt, Nick ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n5

Newton, John ref1

Nicholls, David ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n41, ref6n7, ref7

Niles, Blair ref1, ref2

O’Byrne, William R. ref1n5

Odeluc (colonist) ref1, ref2, ref3n70

Ogé, Vincent ref1, ref2n25

Ogle, Gene E. ref1n88

Omi, Michael ref1

Ong, Aiwha ref1

Ovando, Nicolás de ref1, ref2, ref3n13, ref4n18

Page, Pierre-François ref1n72

Painter, Nell Irvin ref1n55

Park, Mungo (Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa) ref1n26, ref2n7

Système, references to in Vastey’s ref1, ref2

Système, Vastey’s use of in ref1nn34–5, ref2nn38–48, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Parry, Benita ref1

Patterson, Orlando ref1, ref2n19

Pattison, Stephen ref1

Payne, Leigh A. ref1n20

Péan, Leslie ref1

Pechméja, Jean-Joseph ref1n36

Peltier, Jean-Gabriel ref1n21, ref2n2

Pétion, Alexandre ref1, ref2n4

Christophe, as rival of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n41, ref10n105, ref11, ref12, ref13n3, ref14n6

French preference for over Christophe ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6nn36–8, ref7n22, ref8

indemnities for France, as proponent of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Vastey’s negative representations of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10n18, ref11

Phillips, Wendell ref1n17

Philoctète, René ref1n51

Planta, Edward ref1n95

Poncet (colonist) ref1, ref2, ref3n15

Popham, Home Riggs ref1, ref2n5

Popkin, Jeremy D. ref1, ref2n22, ref3n57, ref4nn72–3

Port Folio, The ref1

post/revolutionary (definition of) ref1, ref2

see also Haiti

Power, Michael ref1

Praloto (colonist) ref1n74

Prator, Clifford H. ref1n1, ref2n4, ref3n48

Pratt, Mary Louise ref1n26, ref2n34

Prézeau, Sylvain, Chevalier de ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n21

Prieur, Petit-Noël ref1

Quarrel, William Dawes ref1n80

Quérard, Joseph-Marie ref1

Quevilly, Laurent ref1, ref2

Racine, Karen ref1n8

Rainsford, Marcus ref1n18

Ramsay, James ref1

Ramsey, Kate ref1n21

Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas, Abbé ref1, ref2nn36–7, ref3n62, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Redpath, James ref1

Revue encyclopédique ref1n10, ref2n3

Richard, Jean-Pierre (Duc de la Marmelade) ref1, ref2

Richelieu, Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de ref1

Richepère (colonist) ref1

Ritter, Karl ref1

Robespierre, Maximilien ref1, ref2, ref3n7

Rochambeau, Donatien-Marie-Joseph de ref1, ref2

Romain, Casimir ref1

Roscoe, William ref1n8

Rossignol Desdunes (colonist) ref1, ref2, ref3n74

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ref1nn26–7, ref2, ref3

Roux, Pierre ref1, ref2n44

Rouzeau, A. ref1, ref2n47

Rudé, George ref1n16

Rugemer, Edward Bartlett ref1n76

Rush, Benjamin ref1, ref2n54

Sabourin, André ref1

Saint-Just, Louis-Antoine ref1n7

Saint-Lambert, Jean-François de ref1

Saint-Rémy, Joseph ref1, ref2

Sala-Molins, Louis ref1n81

Sancho, Ignatius ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Sansay, Leonora ref1

Sans-Souci, Jean-Baptiste ref1

Sartre, Jean-Paul ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10n2, ref11n10

Saunders, Prince ref1n18

Scarry, Elaine ref1

Schocket, Andrew M. ref1n29

Schuller, Mark ref1

Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany ref1, ref2n19

Scribes (definition of) ref1, ref2, ref3n11, ref4n21

see also Système; Vastey, Jean Louis

Sepinwall, Alyssa Goldstein ref1n22, ref2n13, ref3n10

Shakespeare, William ref1

Sharp, Granville ref1n29, ref2, ref3n9

Sheller, Mimi ref1n4

Sismondi, Simonde de ref1

Slaughter, Joseph ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Smethurst, Paul ref1

Smith, Adam ref1

Smith, James McCune ref1n104

Sollors, Werner ref1

Sommer, Doris ref1

Sömmerring, Samuel Thomas von ref1, ref2n53

Spivak, Gayatri ref1

Staël, Germaine de ref1, ref2n6

Stanley, Amy Dru ref1

Stephen, James ref1, ref2, ref3n5, ref4

Sterne, Laurence ref1

Stockdale, Percival ref1n8

Stoler, Ann Laura ref1

Stoll, David ref1n14

Système colonial dévoilé, Le

antislavery tract, as ref1, ref2, ref3

Bildungsroman, compared with ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

family members represented in ref1, ref2, ref3n87, ref4, ref5, ref6n18

form v. content, reading for ref1

gender relations in ref1n80, ref2, ref3, ref4n4

historical context for (1814) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

intertextuality and the performance of literacy in ref1

legal deposition, similarity to ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

memory, role of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n18, ref5, ref6, ref7n12, ref8n20

naming/shaming of white colonists ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

orality, emphasis on ref1n42, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8nn11–2

overview of ref1

parody, use of ref1, ref2n29, ref3n1, ref4

protean text, as ref1, ref2

public diplomacy, as act of ref1, ref2

reviews and reprints, nineteenth-century ref1, ref2n19, ref3n53, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n3, ref10n12

scribal dimension of ref1, ref2

sentimentalism, (refusal of) ref1, ref2, ref3n18, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

style, unembellished ref1, ref2, ref3n20, ref4, ref5n26

systemic critique of colonialism, as ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

testimonio, as ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n14

trauma portfolio, as ref1–ref2 ‘truth effect’ in ref3, ref4

veil, metaphor of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

see also Barré de Saint-Venant, Jean; Ducœurjoly, S. J.; Garran-Coulon, Jean-Philippe; Grégoire, Henri; Malouet, Pierre Victor; Moreau de Saint-Méry, M. L. E.; Park, Mungo; Wilberforce, William

Système colonial dévoilé, Le, structural components of

America, history of Spanish conquest of (pp. 87–92) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n15

colonial governance before revolution, critique of (pp. 138–41) ref1n81, ref2

concluding address, emphasis on anticolonial resistance in (pp. 141–5) ref1, ref2n21, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n17, ref7

concluding address, emphasis on public sphere in (pp. 141–5) ref1, ref2n21, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

dedicatory epistle to the King (p. ref1) ref2, ref3n29, ref4n2, ref5, ref6, ref7

division into two chapters ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

ending of first chapter, racial science and philanthropy in (pp. 103–5) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

epigraph (p. ref1) ref2, ref3n1, ref4

errata in original edition ref1n24

footnotes ref1, ref2, ref3n15

free people of colour, colonial oppression of (pp. 130–8) ref1, ref2, ref3n16

Introduction (pp. 83–4) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

inventory of colonial atrocities (pp. 109–23) ref1, ref2n67, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n15, ref9

opening of first chapter, autobiographical (pp. 85–7) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

opening of second chapter, methodological/historiographical (pp. 106–9) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

post scriptum (p. ref1) ref2n107, ref3

slave trade and Africa, portrait of (pp. 92–103) ref1, ref2n29, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

slaves, colonial oppression of (pp. 123–30) ref1, ref2

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de ref1

Taylor, John ref1n11

Todd, David ref1, ref2n6

Tolón, Miguel Teurbe ref1n17

Toussaint Louverture, see Louverture, François-Dominique-Toussaint

Trouillot, Hénock ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n22

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph ref1, ref2, ref3

Tussac, François Richard de ref1n105

Vandercook, John W. ref1

Vastey, Aricie (daughter) ref1, ref2

Vastey, Malvina ‘Améthyste’ (daughter) ref1, ref2

Vastey, Innocent Léo (brother) ref1

Vastey, Jean Valentin (father) ref1, ref2, ref3n4

Vastey, Jean Louis, Baron de

À mes concitoyens (1815a) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n7, ref5

African American print culture, influence on antebellum ref1, ref2n42, ref3n53, ref4n104

anticolonial writers, as precursor of twentieth-century ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

autobiographical representations ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

black identity and African culture, affirmations of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n30, ref5n106, ref6, ref7n7

Christophe, as publicist/secretary/agent for ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n21, ref10, ref11, ref12

Communication officielle de trois lettres de Catineau Laroche (1816a) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4n18

Cri de la conscience (1815b), Le ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Cri de la patrie (1815c), Le ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

date of birth, confusion surrounding his ref1, ref2, ref3

Essai sur les causes de la révolution et des guerres civiles d’Hayti (1819) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11n9, ref12n35, ref13n44, ref14n2, ref15n17, ref16nn106–7, ref17n3, ref18, ref19n1, ref20

Haiti, reputation in ref1, ref2, ref3

‘major’/‘minor’ works, distinction between ref1, ref2

monstrous hybridity, racialized representations of his ref1, ref2, ref3

murder of (1820) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

name, uncertainty regarding his ref1, ref2

neo-colonialism, as critic of French ref1, ref2

Notes à M. le Baron de V. P. Malouet (1814a) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

overview of his life and work ref1, ref2

Réflexions politiques (1817b) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n10, ref9n12, ref10n44, ref11n2, ref12n17, ref13n22, ref14, ref15, ref16n3

Reflexions on the Blacks and Whites (1817a) ref1, ref2, ref3n53, ref4, ref5n9

Réflexions sur une lettre de Mazères (1816c) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n9, ref9nn30–1, ref10n34, ref11n49, ref12n57, ref13n107, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17n15, ref18, ref19, ref20n7, ref21

Relation de la fête de S. M. la Reine d’Hayti (1816d) ref1, ref2n17

scribal identity of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9n20

transatlantic reception of ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7nn3–4

violence, relation to (colonial and revolutionary) ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

see also Christophe, Henri; Clarkson, Thomas; Dessalines, Jean-Jacques; Louverture, Toussaint; Pétion, Alexandre; Système; Wilberforce, William

Vastey, Pierre (paternal grandfather) ref1n4

Vastey, Pierre Jean Valentin (cousin) ref1

Vaval, Duraciné ref1, ref2

Venault de Charmilly, Pierre-François ref1, ref2nn76–8, ref3

Vergès, Françoise ref1

Vernet, André ref1

Viatte, Auguste ref1

Walcott, Derek ref1, ref2n11

Walker, David ref1, ref2n42, ref3n12, ref4n51, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8n4, ref9n8

Webb, Wilse B. ref1n12

Wedgwood, Josiah ref1n10

Wesley, John ref1

Wheatley, Phillis ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n25

Wheeler, Roxann ref1n50

Whipple, Charles K. ref1

Wilberforce, William ref1, ref2n61, ref3n76, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n7, ref8

Système, references to in Vastey’s ref1, ref2

Vastey, representations of ref1, ref2

see also Clarkson, Thomas

Wilder, Gary ref1

Williams-Wynn, Frances ref1

Wilson, Ellen Gibson ref1n5

Wimpffen, Alexandre-Stanislas, Baron de ref1, ref2, ref3

Système, reference to in Vastey’s ref1

Système, Vastey’s use of in ref1n82, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5n14, ref6

Winant, Howard ref1

Winslow, Jacob ref1, ref2n53

Winsnes, Selena ref1n27

Wood, Marcus ref1, ref2n16, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6n20, ref7

Wright, John ref1

Yudell, Michael ref1

Yúdice, George ref1

Zamora, Margarita ref1

Ziarek, Ewa ref1n19

Žižek, Slavoj ref1