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The author is interested in the writing of postcolonial thought in so far as it explores a negative dimension in cultural affiliation. Drawing on the writings of an analysand who was heir to the colonial slave trade that are based on two crimes against humanity – the genocide of Caribbean Amerindians and the trade in black slaves deported from Africa – he raises three issues: making it possible for ancestors to inherit, dislodging the taboos of postcolonial ties and the Weltanschauung of the descendants of the colonial slave trade in the West Indies. His writing is accompanied by the writings of Caribbean thinkers such as Hannibal Price, Paulette Nardal, Jean-Price Mars, Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon to reflect on the conflict of those who were colonized in their quest to subjectivize the colonial slave drama. The author invites us to think about the violence between slave and master and the challenge of denouncing it prior to its enunciation through writing in order to conquer the capacity to love the history of unburied ancestors.