ABSTRACT

This article analyses the relationship between the postcolonial condition and monarchical legitimation in North Haiti during the reign of King Henry I (1811–1820). For Henry and the North Haitian elites, the choice of monarchy represented an attempt at postcolonial socio-political consolidation inasmuch as a strategy towards the recognition of independence by European powers which themselves underwent a monarchical reconstruction after 1814. Far from being a mere copy of European models, Henry’s symbolic politics justified the regime’s political existence against French neocolonial ambitions. Reinscribing the Haitian monarchy into a postrevolutionary Atlantic world, this article examines its reception by and exchanges with Britain and the German states and also considers its contestation by the South Haitian republic. Against the backdrop of North Haiti’s interaction with the European monarchies, this study proposes understanding the Christophean monarchy as a restoration regime responding to both revolutionary and colonial legacies by adopting a monarchical orientation.

摘要

本文分析了亨利一世国王 (1811-1820) 在位期间北海地的后殖民状况与君主制合法性之间的关系。对于亨利和北海地的精英来说，君主制的选择代表了一种后殖民社会政治巩固的尝试，因为这是一种承认欧洲列强独立的战略，这些列强在 1814 年之后经历了君主制重建。远非仅仅是欧洲列强的复制品。模型，亨利的象征性政治证明该政权的政治存在反对法国新殖民主义的野心。本文将海地君主制重新纳入革命后的大西洋世界，考察了英国和德国国家对海地君主制的接受和交流，并考虑了南海地共和国对其的争执。