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Chapter Notes: Universal Emancipation (Nesbitt, 2008)
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Chapter 1 — Saint-Domingue and the Singularization of Enlightenment
Core argument: The Enlightenment was not a uniform ideological formation but a field of competing strands — moderate (Locke, Montesquieu) and radical (Spinoza, the early Robespierre). Saint-Domingue was the site where this internal tension was forced to its resolution, because no moderate compromise was available there. The plantation system was too total, the contradiction between Enlightenment universalism and racial slavery too stark, for any middle position to survive.
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