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Texts the dominant story under-stocked. Filterable by region, era, and theme. Public-domain works are reproduced in full; in-copyright works are excerpted with source links.
C.L.R. James, 1938
James's 1938 history of the Haitian Revolution opens with the argument that the only successful slave revolt in modern history was not an aberration but the leading edge…
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Aimé Césaire, 1950
From Discourse on Colonialism (1950): Césaire's argument that the atrocities Hitler brought home to Europe were the same atrocities Europe had practiced in its colonies,…
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Aimé Césaire, 1939
From the long poem first published in Volontés in 1939 — the founding text of Négritude, written by a colonial subject of Martinique on his way back from Paris. Both an …
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