Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of RevolutionModernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791 1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western