Haitian Independence Persuasive Essay by Top Papers

The paper looks at how Trouillot (1995) contends that history can mean the sociohistorical process, or our knowledge of that process, and that the boundary between the two meanings is "often quite fluid" (p. 3). The paper explains that this has many implications, of which an important one is that the way in which we think will impact how we construct history, in both senses of the word. The paper then argues that Haitian independence should be characterized as an unthinkable history, in that existing ways of thought at the time were incapable of comprehending the reality of the events, even as they unfolded.