The Three Faces Of Sans Souci Analysis

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Critique Number Two Chapter two, titled The Three Faces of Sans Souci, gives an example of the silencing of a story in Haitian history. Trouillot uncovers, for the reader, the truth behind a name: Sans Souci. In this case, the truth was a person, previously obscured from the story surrounding the castle in Milot, named Sans Souci, an important component of the history of Haiti. The truth had been blurred by a biased viewpoint, which mistakenly connected the name Sans Souci to a German palace, rather than to Sans Souci, the man, who was killed by Henry Christophe, a hero to many in Haiti, due to his victories in the Haitian Revolution, and the constructor, owner, and namer of the Haitian palace of Sans Souci. How does this compare to the story