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JEREMY D. POPKIN
Dept. of History.
University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 40506
USA
popkin@email.uky.edu
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1 Estas narrativas de cativeiro tm sido estudadas, no caso do Imprio Britnico, por COLLEY, Linda. captives:
Britain, empire, and the world, 1600-1850. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
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2 Acerca dos primeiros usos dados a este termo, ver: FOLKENFLIK, Robert. Introduction. In: FOLKENFLIK, Robert. (org.)
The culture of autobiography: constructions of self-representation. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, p.1-4.
3 Para uma anlise clssica do significado deste perodo para o desenvolvimento da auto-biografia, ver: WEINTRAUB,
Karl J. The value of the individual: self and circumstance in autobiography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1978.
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4 N.T: O autor aqui faz uma referncia indireta ao Ground Zero, o qual se refere tanto ao espao anteriormente
ocupado pelas Torres gmeas, em Nova York, como tambm ao momento impactante do 11 de setembro para a
cultura ocidental contempornea.
5 BUCK-MORSS, Susan. Hegel and Haiti. Critical Inquiry, n.26, p.821-65, 2000; ver, tambm, FISCHER. Modernity
Disavowed. p.25-32.
6 TROUILLOT, Michel-Rolph. An unthinkable history: the Haitian Revolution as a non-event. In: Silencing the past:
power and the production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995, p.70-107.
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7 Dois autores diferentes publicaram relatos utilizando o ttulo Histoire des dsastres de Saint-Domingue, na dcada
posterior a 1790: SA. Histoire des dsastres de Saint-Domingue, prcde dun tableau et des progrs de cette
colonie, depuis sa foundation, jusqu lpoque de la Rvolution franaise. Paris: Garnery, An III [1795]; e CARTEAUX,
F. Histoire des dsastres de Saint-Domingue, Ouvrage o lon expose les causes de ces vnemens, les moyens
employs pour renverser cette Colonie; les repoches faits ses Habitans, et les Calomnies dont on les a couverts;
enfin des faits et des vrits, qui justifiant ces Colons, sont encore propres fixer le Gouvernement sur les moyens
de fair refleurir la culture dans cette isle infortune. Bordeaux: Pellier-Lawalle, An X [1802].
8 Pesquisas recentes, desenvolvidas por meu colega na University of Kentucky, Daniel Desormeaux, tm mostrado
que o texto publicado, em meados do sculo XIX, como Mmoires du gnral Toussaint-Louverture, cuja auten-
ticidade h muito contestada, , de fato, uma traduo do manuscrito autntico, escrito em crioulo, por este
lder negro. Estas memrias, entretanto, so um exemplo clssico de apologia poltica e esto circunscritas ao
relato das aes polticas e militares de Toussaint Louverture, durante os quatro meses que seguiram chegada
da expedio francesa, de 1802.
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10 ANNIMO. Extrait dune letter, sur les malheurs de Saint-Domingue en general, et principalement sur lincendie de
la ville du Cap Franais. Paris: Pain, An. II [1793]; CARTEAUX, F. Soires bermudiennes. Bordeaux, 1802.
11 ANNIMO. My Odyssee: experiences of a young refugee from two revolutions. Edio e traduo de Altha de
Puech Parham. Baton Rouge/La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. O manuscrito original desta obra, que
contm diferenas significativas em relao traduo de 1959, est, hoje, depositada numa biblioteca privada,
a Historic New Orleans Collection.
12 N>T: o autor refere-se aqui ao perodo ps-napolonico na Frana.
13 ANNIMO. Manuscrit dun Voyage de France Saint-Domingue, la Havanne et aux Unis tats [sic] dAmrique.
Contenant le sjour de la personne, qui crit, avec une description gnrale, de toutes les cultures de St. Domin-
gue. Un rapport des evnems, de la rvolution de ce pays, qui ont eu lieu, depuis 1789, jusquen 1804. Diverses
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observations politiques, & autres dtails, diviss en deux parties. 1816, premire partie, p.193, deuxime partie,
p.76. [Acervo da John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI].
14 PERKINS, Samuel G. Sketches of St. Domingo from January, 1785, to December, 1794. Proceedings of the Massa-
chusetts Historical Society, 2nd series, n.2, p.305-90, 1886; CHAZOTTE, Peter S. Historical sketches of the Revolution
and the foreign and Civil Wars in the island of St. Domingo. New York: Wm. Applegate, 1840.
15 BRUN-LAVAINNE, Elie-Benjamin-Joseph. Mes souvenirs. Lille: Lefebvre-Ducrocq, 1855.
16 POPKIN, Jeremy D. Facing racial revolution: eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2008.
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17 BEAUVOIS, Baron de. Ides sommaires sur quelques rglements faier par lAssemble coloniale; par M. le baron
de Beauvois, conseiller au Conseil-suprieur du Cap, correspondant de lAcadmie Royale des Sciences, ci-devant
associ de la Socit Royale des Sciences & Arts de Saint-Domingue. Cap-Franais: Batilliot, 1790, p.37.
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18 GROS, Jerome. An historick recital, of the different occurrences in the camps of Grande-Reviere [sic.], Dondon,
Sainte-Suzanne, and others, from the 26th of October, 1791, to the 24th of December, of the same year, by M. Gros,
attorney syndic of Valiere, taken Prisoner by Johnny, p.35.
19 GROS, Jerome. An historick recital, p.36-37.
20 GROS, Jerome. An historick recital, p.40.
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35 BAEPLER, Paul. Introduction. In: BAEPLER, Paul. (org.) White slaves, African masters: an anthology of American
barbary captivity narratives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, p.28.
36 CARTEAUX, F. Histoire des dsastres de Saint-Domingue. Bordeaux: Pellier-Lawalle, 1802, p.XXIII.
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