Abstract

In this article, we will analyze the possible epistemological criteria that circumscribe the long Haitian revolutionary process in a non-narrative-place in the context of the Hegelian philosophy of world history. Contrary to the European political, economic, and cultural imaginary of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, which saw the Haitian Revolution as an event that directly or indirectly impacted global geopolitical transformations, abolitionist discourses, and trade routes across the Atlantic, Hegel seems at first to neglect the specificity of the process, although, as we argue in this context, it is possible to trace the reasons for a deliberate exclusion that responds to the precise ideas of freedom and terror that precede, and thus determine, the place of the Haitian Revolution in world history.