Postcolonial racial ambiguities: the occultation of the notion of "race" in the Haitian compensation process of 1825

Speaker(s)

Mathilde Ackermann

EHESS

Events

An alternative history of the ordinance of 17 April 1825: Haitian opposition to the half-right

The auction of sovereignty: The Haitian indemnity of 1825 in a global financial context

The State and the peasantry in relation to the indemnity debt

Discussion

Postcolonial racial ambiguities: the occultation of the notion of "race" in the Haitian compensation…

Indemnitaires and Obligataires: The Means and Meaning of Haïti's Debt in N…

Moral debt and social rights: distinguishing political compensation under the Restoration

Reparations, compensations, indemnities: the idea of justice in the aftermath of the abolition of 18…

Discussion

The Haitian revolution and the West: the making of a non-event

Symposium

14 Jun 2025

9:00 - 10:45am

Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Carlo A. Celius

Round table: Remembrance and reparations

Symposium

14 Jun 2025

11:15am - 1:00pm

Stéphane Pair, Éric Monnet, Denis Cogneau, Jean-Marie Théodat & Michèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis

Postcolonial racial ambiguities: the occultation of the notion of "race" in the Haitian compensation process of 1825

Session 4: Indemnities and indemnified persons

Speaker(s)

Mathilde Ackermann

Events

Haiti, 1825: from independence to debt - Introduction

Saint-Domingue at the dawn of the Revolution

The Haitian Revolution: histories and historiographies

The Haitian state after independence

Discussion

Round table : Haitian independence : an intellectual histo…

Readings from Aimé Césaire's La Tragédie du roi Christophe

The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794

An alternative history of the ordinance of 17 April 1825: Haitian opposition to the half-right

The auction of sovereignty: The Haitian indemnity of 1825 in a global financial context

The State and the peasantry in relation to the indemnity debt

Discussion

Postcolonial racial ambiguities: the occultation of the notion of "race" in the Haitian compensation…

Indemnitaires and Obligataires: The Means and Meaning of Haïti's Debt in N…

Moral debt and social rights: distinguishing political compensation under the Restoration

Reparations, compensations, indemnities: the idea of justice in the aftermath of the abolition of 18…

Discussion

The Haitian revolution and the West: the making of a non-event

Round table: Remembrance and reparations

Round table: From debt to contemporary crisis

See also