Though it was well-intentioned and has some positive features, overall it represents a distortion (I would even say a revisionist view) of slavery, as well as of the Haitian Revolution the film implicitly shifts blame from French whites and toward mulattoes, the Spanish and even blacks themselves. In 2012, the French TV station France 2 aired a two-part miniseries on Toussaint, which many hoped would fill this gap. However, the project has run into multiple roadblocks and may never be realized. The American actor/director Danny Glover has sought to fill this lacuna with an epic production on Toussaint Louverture, the Revolution’s leading general. Yet while numerous films have been made on other revolutions, the Haitian Revolution still suffers from neglect. In recent decades, scholars have paid increasing attention to the Haitian Revolution.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall California State University, San Marcos
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