[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Jun 21, 2020

Alex Aviña returns to RLR to discuss the Haitian Revolution!

Alexander Aviña is an associate professor of Latin American history in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His book, "Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside" , was awarded the Maria Elena Martínez Book Prize in Mexican History for 2015 by the Conference on Latin American History.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. On today's episode we have back
0:10.8	on the show, Historian Alexander Avina, to talk about the Haitian Revolution. Alex has
0:16.9	been on for multiple episodes including our Chile episode, our Zapoteas to episode next
0:22.2	can Revolution episode, and you know this is really his focal point in what he studies
0:26.5	is Latin American Revolutionary History. And so I thought he would be a perfect guest
0:31.2	to bring on to talk about the Haitian Revolution at a perfect time because I think the Haitian
0:36.2	Revolution often gets overlooked in sort of Western histories. We aren't taught it as
0:41.7	much as we're taught the American and the French Revolution in school, but it is the really
0:46.8	crucial moment for for Black liberation historically and I very much see the ongoing fight
0:53.3	for Black liberation in this country and around the world as a direct descendant of the
0:58.0	Haitian Revolution and the Haitian Revolutionaries. So I thought it was a perfect guest at a
1:01.9	perfect time to have on to talk about this deep and rich history. Again, and I want to say this
1:06.9	in the show, there is so much to tackle here. This even among revolutionary historical events,
1:13.7	this one is incredibly complicated and protracted. So we're going to give as much information as
1:19.1	we can throughout this episode, but both Alex and I wanted to encourage people who want to
1:24.2	learn even more. If you want to really learn a step by step historical account of the revolution
1:30.5	and all the nuances involved, the podcast revolutions, I think their fourth season is completely
1:36.2	dedicated to talking about the Haitian Revolution and also Alex mentions a PBS documentary as well.
1:42.4	So if you are interested in anything you learn here, you can follow up with that documentary,
1:47.8	you can follow up with CLR James's The Black Jacobin and you can follow up with the revolutions
1:53.9	podcast season four where they cover it in its minutiae. It's a fascinating and deeply in
2:01.0	Transing History. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get in this episode with my good friend Alex
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