The colonial system unveiled /by Baron de Vastey ; translated and edited by Chris Bongie.
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le système colonial dévoilé / Memories of development: Le système colonial dévoilé and the performance of literacy / Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Marlene Daul -- Doris Garraway -- Chris Bongie -- Nick Nesbitt.
The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.