Celucien L. Joseph received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an assistant professor of English at Indian River State College. Joseph is the author of From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the Haitian Revolution 1An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 2The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of “Freedom from Below,” and the Politics of God 3Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal’s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of Revolutionary Humanism 4“A City Upon a Hill”: Haiti, Religion, and Race: Frederick Douglass’ Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5The Spirit of Revolution, the Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes’ Emperor of Haiti Bibliography Index About the Author

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Celucien L. Joseph received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an assistant professor of English at Indian River State College. Joseph is the author of From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the Haitian Revolution 1An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 2The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of “Freedom from Below,” and the Politics of God 3Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal’s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of Revolutionary Humanism 4“A City Upon a Hill”: Haiti, Religion, and Race: Frederick Douglass’ Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5The Spirit of Revolution, the Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes’ Emperor of Haiti Bibliography Index About the Author

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Celucien L. Joseph received his PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an assistant professor of English at Indian River State College. Joseph is the author of From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought.

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Interpreting and Engaging the Haitian Revolution 1An Appraisal of Recent Scholarship on the Haitian Revolution 2The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, the Discourse of “Freedom from Below,” and the Politics of God 3Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal’s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian Postcolonial Lens of Decolonization and Theory of Revolutionary Humanism 4“A City Upon a Hill”: Haiti, Religion, and Race: Frederick Douglass’ Freedom Discourse and the Significance of the Haitian Revolution as a Freedom Event in Modernity 5The Spirit of Revolution, the Spirit of Black Freedom: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution and the Function of Black Religion in Langston Hughes’ Emperor of Haiti Bibliography Index About the Author

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