Also known as: Haitian peasantry, peasantry in Haiti
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti is the key current source because it treats the peasantry as the result of a victory against forced labor and plantation restoration, not as evidence of national failure. The Haitians: A Decolonial History remains important for the later decolonial reading of the same social world.
peasantry
peasantry — the class whose social order Casimir re-describes as sovereign civilization.
Analyzed the Haitian peasantry as the social force the state simultaneously drew upon and excluded, building on the insight that 'land meant liberty' for formerly enslaved people.
peasantry — devastated by rice tariff removal during his first term
peasantry — *Bain de lune* is a sustained portrait of coastal peasant life: fishing, smallholding, vodou, and survival on the margins of the state
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