No, @britannica.com, it's not "the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution", it's the Haitian Revolution - with Black political subjects carrying out their own revolutionary acts, not subsumed under/inspired by white Europeans' revolutionary actions. #trouillot #silencingthepast

Haitian anthropologist Michel-RolphTrouillot in is book #SilencingthePast: We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be.

Last class of term today. We’re having a pizza party (outdoors of course!).

We have a class playlist too - all for students to look forward to after refining their senior capstone papers & a great way for me to thank them for a super semester. #SilencingThePast was their favorite reading. 🙌 🥰

Good question - and there's a book for that from @upmississippi.bsky.social! www.amazon.com/Slave-Revolt... #SlaveRevoltonScreen #SilencingThePast #HaitianSky 🗃️

I love this so much. I've already been QTing my favorite passages. Some more below! Hooray @kawulf.bsky.social for a true tour de force, following along MRT, #SilencingthePast, and reversing some of the silencing in very rich archives.