"[Thomas] Sutpen launches his design with that obliviousness that is American innocence. Once on Haiti, Sutpen disregards the manifest evidence of impending 'slave' revolt and hybrid racial ancestries. Sutpen's famously preserved innocence amounts to the habit of looking without seeing." (author)
Reviews Richard S. Dunn's Sugar and slaves; Keith Albert Sandiford's Cultural politics of sugar; Doris Y. Kadish's Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World; C. L. R. James' The Black Jacobins
