Immanuel Kant, "The Difference Between the Race" (PER 637-639)
Denis Diderot, "Who are you, then, to make slaves" (PER 640-644)
Thomas Jefferson, "On Indians and Negroes" (PER 657-668)
Laurent Dubois, "Why Haiti Should be at the Centre of the Age of Revolutions" (PDF)
Study Questions
1. On what grounds do Kant and Jefferson advance the ill treatment of blacks? How does this differ from Diderot's insistance that slavery is evil?
2. According to Dubois, why should Haiti be at the center of the age of revolutions? What is its importance to Atlantic and world history?
3. Annotate your copy of the Dubois article. I will be checking this in class.
BONUS!
These videos from Crash Course in World History will give you the necessary context to understand our upcoming unit on the Haitian Revolution. We will look at the first two in class, but I recommend reviewing them here.
