Editors’ Notes
Most of the historians who wrote about the colonies were white, and even colonists. They went into the tiniest details about production, climate, the rural economy, but they always made sure not to unveil the crimes of their accomplices.
—Pompee Valentin Vastey, 1814
as quoted in
Jean Casimir
The Haitians: A Decolonial History
University of North Carolina Press, 2020
