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Article: 'Absalom, Absalom!' and Faulkner's erroneous dating of the Haitian revolution. (Special Issue: William Faulkner)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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In 1791 slaves revolted on San Domingo: "the world's richest colony" was overrun in a black revolution, whose forces "defeated the Spanish; inflicted a defeat of unprecedented proportions on the British, and then made their country the graveyard of Napoleon's magnificent army." By 1804 the Americas had their first black national state, the independent republic of Haiti. In 1823 Thomas Sutpen leaves Virginia for the West Indies, where, in 1827, he puts down an uprising among slaves on a French sugar plantation on Haiti. As due recompense, he marries the owner's daughter and achieves a son (1831). The dates are important since they indicate that Faulkner has the hero of ...
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