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The author is a professor of romance studies and history at Duke University. Not only does it provide a splendid introduction to Haiti and awaken concern for the country’s future, it delivers an education about how foreign interference can lead to unintended and painful consequences. Even the best American intentions have often proved to be glaring failures.įor this reason alone, the book is worthwhile. The book also details the tragic roles that the U.S. The book is well researched and beautifully written and provides a sweeping introduction from Haiti’s successful slave revolt to the modern day. It also prepared me for the fine line between hope and hopelessness on which the country seems to perpetually teeter.īecause of this book, I keep trying to discern whether Mother Nature or Mankind has been more brutal and wreaked more havoc on a place the size of Massachusetts where some 10 million people live.Ĭertainly any American with any intention of visiting or just learning about Haiti should read it. “Haiti is not for amateurs” is the quote from his book that sticks with me whenever I consider the important work that so many overseas organizations and well-intentioned people are devoting to Paul Farmer’s “Haiti: After the Earthquake”, but the best starting point for me was the Dubois book. Yes, I have Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains” and Dr. So has sinister plans stolen the future of Black Pride.To prepare for a reporting assignment in Haiti about the role of NGOs in August, I read Laurent Dubois’ “Haiti: The Aftershocks of History”. Haiti today is the result of a history-less Peoples. Yet if you look deep enough you will read of a forgotten people.

The Haitian women earned their right of man alongside the Haitian man.īertier happened in 1798 review biblical Daniel.Īlong side a passionate group of Affranchi term lost with the silent History of the first black free island of Hispaniola (an Indian word for mountainous land).īeware if you read this book read with an open mind. Such ideologies freed nations in less that 8 years, these Ideologies written by educated and well rounded black men and women. The country emerged in a world still dominated by slavery, and the nations that surrounded it saw its existence as a serious threat. The aftershocks of that revolution reverberate throughout Haiti's history. Many of such black ruling government officials of the passed have gone on record asking for their Blackist ideologies were not spread under Ayiti name and banner. With Haiti's declaration of independence, the revolution was complete. Many families were targeted by a paranoid black ruling government. There is a strong probability that this author was reared in Haiti nevertheless lived in Haiti. I don’t understand why this author decided to blame race. Political correctness and modern historic shame. Haiti is like a pin hindering the most comfortable bedding.