Write a book report- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Under “Week 3” I have included a number of items for each of these revolutions as background, but I would like you to focus especially on the dialectical interplay between the French and Haitian revolutions. Haiti, then known as St. Dominique, was a French colony at the time of the French revolution. The Haitian population was made up of hundreds of thousand enslaved Black people, a small minority of free Black people (though who were not recognized as citizens), and a tiny group of white plantation owners. This was the social structure of Haiti at the moment that a citizens revolution took place in France itself, acting as a partial catalyst for the Haitian revolution, whose true origin lies in generations of slave revolts in that colony and throughout the Americas.

Broad historical background on the French and Haitian revolutions is provided in the links, including brief art-historical videos about French revolutionary art as well as a comprehensive documentary introduction to the Haitian revolution.

For this weeks prompt, I would like for you to meditate on the following deliberately open-ended question:

Write a book report- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make ThingsIn thinking about this question, draw on the two (short) readings by Rebecca Spang about the French Revolution, and then the Laurent Dubois about the Haitian revolution. In conjunction with Dubois, make sure to watch the Haiti documentary as well. Finally, embed at least one image from the videos and/or readings in your post.