Sheller, Mimi — Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (20) Source Information

Sheller, Mimi — Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (20) Source Information Author: Mimi Sheller Full Title: Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica Publisher: University Press of Florida / Macmillan Caribbean Year: 20 Type: Secondary Source — Post-Emancipation Democracy, Black Publics, and Comparative Caribbean Political Sociology Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Full Text: sheller democracy.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — sheller democracy.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-27) — post-independence democracy pass focused on black publics, peasant radicalism, the 1843-1844 Haitian crisis, and the Piquet movement Chapter notes: sheller democracy ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created black publics, peasant radicalism, piquet rebellion 1844, and acaau; strengthened goman, moc historiography, moc resistance, moc people, and moc sources Overview Sheller gives the vault one of its clearest ways to think about Haiti after the revolution without reducing the nineteenth century to "decline" or "failure." Her argument is that emancipation and independence did not automatically produce democracy. In both Haiti and Jamaica, formerly enslaved people and their descendants built public worlds of petition, speech, assembly, press, kinship, landholding, and insurgent action. Those worlds pressed for real citizenship.