The Haitians: Chapter Notes — Chapters 7 and 8

Detailed research notes on Chapters 7 (Public Order and Communal Order) and 8 (The Power and Beauty of the Sovereign People) of Jean Casimir's The Haitians. Chapter 7 documents the two structurally incompatible parallel orders in 19th-century Haiti — the French-language oligarchic public order and the Kreyòl-based communal order — showing that the colonial governance machinery inherited at independence had no real penetration into daily life and was repeatedly defeated. Chapter 8 makes the positive case for the sovereign people's power as expressed through Vodou, family, Kreyòl, and communal institutions that the oligarchs could not destroy.