Reparations, compensations, indemnities: the idea of justice in the aftermath of the abolition of 1848, based on the case of Martinique

Speaker(s)

Jessica Balguy

Carnegie Mellon University

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

Reparations, compensations, indemnities: the idea of justice in the aftermath of the abolition of 1848, based on the case of Martinique

Session 4: Indemnities and indemnified persons

Speaker(s)

Jessica Balguy

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