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Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Print version record.;Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.;Preface: Baron de Vastey and Post/Revolutionary Haiti -- Jean Louis Vastey (1781-1820): A biographical sketch -- Introduction -- (1820) Death of a scribe -- (1814): The colonial system restored -- (1814-2014): Reading the Protean text -- The colonial system unveiled -- Supplementary Essays -- Monstrous testimony: Baron de Vastey and the politics of Black memory / Marlene Daul -- Abolition, sentiment, and the problem of agency in Le systeme colonial devoile / Doris Garraway -- Memories of development: Le systeme colonial devoile and the performance of literacy / Chris Bongie -- Afterword: Vastey and the system of colonial violence / Nick Nesbitt.;Description based on print version record. The first translation into English of 'Le Systeme colonial devoile', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.