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The Absent Agronomist & The Lord of Poison
New Shapes of Modernity in Transatlantic Literature (1758-1859)
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“King Caesar”or
Merry Mackendal1801
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Interdisciplinary Archives“Macandale, Head of the Revolted Blacks” 1758 – Crime Report—Saint-Domingue
“Makandal, Histoire Veritable.” (True Story) 1787 – French popular literature—Paris
Description Topographique … L’Isle Saint-Domingue – Planter’s Dossier on Agricultural Society and Practice in Saint-Domingue—1796—Philadelphia
“King Caesar; Or, The Negro Slaves.”—Pantomime (Theater) 1801
Bug-Jargal (1820) -- Short-story -Romantic Novel
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“Macandale, Head of the Revolted Blacks…” (1758)
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Vertical Sugar Rollers of the 1660s
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Horizontal Roller Technology
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Plan of a Sugar Mill in Saint-Domingue’s Northern District.
This design was “perfected” by M. Belin, neighboring planter to Lenormand de Mezy, Makandal’s ‘Master’,’ according to Moreau de Saint-Mery’s Description Topographique …L’Isle Saint-Domingue (1796).
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New Shapes of Modernity in Transatlantic Literature (1758-1859)
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From Makandal to Bug-Jargal - the Prince of Congo
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Leah Gordon’s “Lanset Kods”, (Rope Throwers) cover of Bug-Jargal (trans. Bongie, 2004).