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An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President
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I sent the author an e-mail when I finished reading this book. And I will tell you like I told him. This is one of the best books I have read in quite sometime. Mr. Robinson is a voice for the people of Haiti. I admire people like him because he cares so much for which most people care so little.
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Silencing the Past
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If you liked any of Howard Zinn's books, you'll like this. Trouillot's analysis of historiography goes far beyond "history is written by the victors" to talk about the deliberate and systematic way that some voices, events, and narratives are excluded from the dominant historical record. If the first section is a little too theoretical (and, for me, ... »
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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In 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the most profitable real estate in the world. These profits came at a price: while its sugar plantations supplied two-thirds of France's overseas trade, they also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade. The slaves were brutally treated and died in great numbers, prompting a never-en... »
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The Uses Of Haiti
I am a Haitian, lived in Haiti until I came to the States at 28. I went back to visit the graves of my ancestors a few months before the departure of the ... »
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Toussaint Louverture: A Biography
Well known for his trilogy of historical novels chronicling Haiti's struggle for independence from France (ALL SOUL'S RISING, MASTER Of The CROSSROADS, an... »
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