Looking forward to speaking about the maroons of Saint-Domingue/Haiti at this upcoming UCLA conference on migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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“The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti, 1720-1725”: Nov. 7 at Harvard
Looking forward to speaking on November 7 about “The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Struggle for Haiti, 1720-1725” at Harvard’s Mahindra 18th c. Studies Seminar. Details here.
Yale Early Modern Empires Workshop: The Jesuits in Haiti
The Jesuits in early eighteenth-century Haiti
Looking forward to discussing “The Jesuits, the Souls of Slaves, and the Battle for Saint-Domingue, 1720-1730” with the Boston College Legal History Roundtable this coming Thursday.
“‘No Body to be Kicked’? Monopoly, Financial Crisis, and Popular Revolt in 18th-Century Haiti and America”
Just out in Law and Literature: “‘No Body to be Kicked’? Monopoly, Financial Crisis, and Popular Revolt in 18th-Century Haiti and America.”
Here’s the abstract:
“Contemporary law and legal theory are resigned to the view that the corporation is a mere nexus of contracts, a legal person lacking both body and soul. This essay explores that commitment to the immateriality of the corporation through a discussion of the 18th-century revolt against the Indies Company in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and British North America. Opponents of the joint-stock monopoly in these Atlantic settings believed, like critics of transnational corporate power today, that the company form represented a merger of wealth and power operating to subvert the liberties of disenfranchised outsiders. Financial crisis served to destabilize the fiscal and political environment that insulated the Indies Company from its critics, who took advantage of these openings by attacking the material embodiments of the corporation in the name of “free trade.” The 18th-century opposition to monopoly privilege suggests that corporate personality was neither dismissed as fiction nor accepted as reality, and that in some circumstances, at least, the corporate body could indeed be held to account for the sins of a person without conscience.”
Photos of a recent trip to Haiti (Part 1 of 2)
All photos © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016. Please do not reproduce without permission.
- Île de la Tortue. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- In the foreground, the Petite Anse side of the bay of Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The bay of Cap Haitien seen from the north. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The Petite Anse side of bay of Cap Haitien
- Le Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Sunrise over Le Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Le Cap at dusk. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The Cathedral of Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Another view of the Cathedral of Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- A street view in Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Marché de Fer (the marketplace known as Place de Clugny in the later 18th century) at Cap Haitien, where Sunday slave markets were once held. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Another view of the Marché de Fer (the marketplace known as Place de Clugny in later 18th century), where Sunday slave markets were once held. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The current Appeals Court of Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The former Jesuit compound in Le Cap, now a lycée. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The site of what was once Government House in Le Cap (now a lycée building). © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The head of a funeral march in Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Place Montarcher in Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Monument to Dutty Boukman at Place d’Armes in Cap Haitien. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Monument to Christophe in front of the Cap Haitien Hospital. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The site of the old hôpital at Cap, now the office of ISPAN (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national). © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The former home of Anténor Firmin in Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- A street view in Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The colonial prison of Le Cap, one of the few 18th-century buildings still standing. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- A view inside a cell of the old Cap prison. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The colonial prison at Cap. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The mairie of Léogane during the installation of a new magistrate. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Memorial to Queen Anacaona at Léogane. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Remains of an early 18th-century fort protecting Petit Goâve. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- Fishing boats at Aquin, in the south. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- A view of the town square and cathedral of Aquin, in the south. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.
- The shoreline at Zanglais, in the south. © Malick W. Ghachem, 2016.