In the Hegelian Dialectical Scheme and Universal History, is there something of the Haitian Revolutionary Experience to be extricated from oblivion ? ; Dans le Schéma dialectique hégélien et l’Histoire universelle, y aurait-il quelque chose de l’Expérience révolutionnaire haïtienne à extirper de l’oubli ?

The slave movement in Saint-Domingue constitutes, Morss asserts, an experience never seen before. It remains, in many respects, the fiery test of the ideals of the Enlightenment, and therefore, supplants the French revolution in the very application of the latter (Susan Buck-Morss, 2009). And Matthieu Renault does not budge: “'That freedom cannot be granted to slaves from above', 'that the self-liberation of the slave is required by a trial by death'' , [all] this had been shown in the act of the Haitian revolution” (Matthieu Renault, 2021). The revolutionary events in Santo Domingo had, according to Buck-Morss for example, a significant impact on the Hegelian dialectic. We also find its echo in the Western history of ideas and in universal history in general, apart from the symbolic contribution of this revolution to the promotion of abolitionist and anti-racist struggles, in particular, the independence struggles of the Latin America and the Caribbean, those of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, etc. Note also that Pierre Franklin Tavares in particular considers the Hegelian dialectical schema as based on the historical reality already offered by the events of Santo Domingo almost at the same time as the writing of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. But Hegel pretends to ignore this crucial dimension of the revolutionary experience of the slaves of Saint-Domingue. And it is on purpose that Morss questions this attempt to gag/erase this Haitian prowess, and in particular, the paradoxical coincidence of the ideals of the Enlightenment never truly called into question. So, what makes Hegel interested neither in the situation of the slaves of Saint-Domingue, nor in the revolution of these slaves, nor in the success of this uprising against their masters? Why does he not take this into account even in the conception of his dialectic of master and slave despite his emotional inclination towards revolution? If Hegel was contemporary with the revolution of Santo Domingo, one of the major events of modernity, ...