Chapter 8: The Power and Beauty of the Sovereign People (264–305)
→ What demonstrates the victory of the sovereign people?
→ What links the captive and the contemporary sufferer together? How do they define themselves?
→ How does Christophe’s government deviate from the despotic structure of the “modern/colonial public administration”?
→ What explains the “failed state” narrative of Haiti?
→ Consider Casimir’s methodological detour on p. 285. What do you take away from it?
→ Who are the Ginen Haitians?
→ Describe the knowledge system Casimir argues was inaugurated in America. How does it function?
→ Describe the difference between communal solidarity and individual emancipation.
→ What is the power of the captive’s private sphere/private life?
→ Note the list of rural Haitian institutions on p. 303
→ What is the counter-plantation system?
