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Haiti in the late eighteenth century: a French colonial society founded on the backs of its black slaves; a morass of shifting political and personal loyalties, of hatred and cruelty meted out to match the increments of lightness and darkness in the color of skin; a world already haunted by its recent genocidal history and facing a new war of extermination in its dangerously near future. This is the setting for Madison Smartt Bell's "All Souls' Rising"

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With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.

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A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive account of the Haitian Revolution of 1794-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille but became the model for the Third World liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

Description from The Reader's Catalog
"Rich in subject matter and eminently readable, this book is also a fine work of scholarship. The more than 1,200 footnotes are models of clarity and relevance; the bibliography and index seem scrupulously accurate...While each generation must rewrite its own history, as Nicholls remarks, no book on Haiti for a long time to come will properly be able to ignore the analysis he here provides." -- Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Did Aristide leave Haiti voluntarily? Why did the U.S. want him out? What does the regime change mean for the health of Haitians? Did Aristide "overstay his welcome," in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, who never had a welcome in his own country to overstay? After 35 coups, what does the double entendre mean to get Haiti "right" this time?

From The Publisher
Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarship. The journey proved to be a turning point in his life. Fifty years later, his attachment to the tiny Caribbean nation -- his second home -- remains as passionate and powerful as ever. Now, in Haiti: Best Nightmare on Earth, he explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, violent land.
In his many Haitian travels, Gold has dined with Graham Greene and chatted with the hated Duvalier oppressors. He has traded stories with CIA saboteurs, former Nazis, rum-soaked diplomats, and voodoo priests. He has taken in the cockfights and hunted for pirate treasure. He has nearly died of malaria; he has faced machete-wielding gangs of Ton-Ton Macoutes. He followed the traffic in Haitian blood to American hospitals and watched the AIDS epidemic take its toll. He listened to the steady beat of drums rolling down mist-shrouded mountains, and shared in the flirting, drinking, and laughter of the streets. He has captured the essence of this land where tragedy is the music the people dance to.

Synopsis
Fifteen chapters consider the political, economic, ideological, and psychological effect of the Haitian revolution. The chapters discuss influence on slave resistance and the expansion of slavery, as well as the opening of economic frontiers, and the formation of Black and white Diasporas. They also show how the Haitian revolution shaped the debates about race and slavery, and inspired plays, novels, and poetry. The contributors include historians and sociologists from North America and Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Description
A collection of insightful and well documented essays from 23 contributors present facts, contexts and perspectives (beyond the report media) to understand Haiti, its proud people and to participate in the environnemental, political and social transformations that are needed.
Haitians have defeated Napoleon and abolish slavery in 1803. The retrenchment of the Napoleon’s army from Saint-Domingue led to the Louisiana Purchase deal which changed for ever the lanscape of America. As Haiti commemorates in 2004 the bicentenial of its greatest accomplishment it needs energized friends to harvest not debt but a brighter future.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture is revered as the liberator of Haiti. Through forty-one bold tempera paintings, prominent artist Jacob Lawrence has documented the life of this hero and his role in the Haitian Revolution and the emergence of the first black republic.

"In the late 1930s, Lawrence painted a series of pictures that documented the oppression of the Haitian people at the end of the 18th century and their eventual liberation in 1804. The paintings are used here {in conjunction with Myers's text} to tell readers about {Toussaint L'Ouverture}, the man who lead that revolution." (SLJ) "Grades four to eight." (Booklist)

From Deborah Zink Roffino - Children's Literature  
Wise, kind and noble, Toussaint L'Ouverture rose from slavery to freedom to leadership. This slim, easy to read book honors the man who held liberty in the highest esteem. Son of an African Prince, Toussaint led a 1791 revolution in Haiti that parallelled both the American Revolution and the Civil Rights Movement. This story follows his dream of freedom from tyranny for people of every color.

The Uses of Haiti
by Paul Farmer

Synopsis
This is an account of Haiti's political history and economic and social conditions. The author argues that "Spain, France, Germany, Britain, the United States, Haiti's own ruling class, its army and the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy have taken their turn to exploit the country over two centuries. . .. {He concludes that Haiti's} place in world league tables is invariably at the bottom in terms of income, life-expectancy and health, near the top for political murders and torture." (Times Lit Suppl) Bibliography. Index.

From The Publisher
This book is a complete history of Haiti from 1492 to the end of 1995. The first edition was and remains the most complete history of Haiti ever written in English and one of the most complete in any language. This second edition contains two more chapters as well as updated information to make it a must read for anyone interested in the history of Haiti and its people. Praise for the First Edition: "There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic." --WASHINGTON STAR "Praised by all who have read it as the only complete and fully documented history of Haiti in any language, "Written in Blood" is certain to become a classic." --UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS

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Like two roosters in a fighting arena, the Dominican Republic and Haiti are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They share one Caribbean island, Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. And just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds (a favorite sport in both countries) as a way of playing out human conflicts, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Michele Wucker's reports on these struggles, both in Hispaniola and in the United States, take us through the haunted mountains where sixty years ago the Dominican dictator Trujillo ordered 30,000 Haitians to be killed, to Vodou rituals in Dominican sugarcane fields where Haitians work as near-slaves, and to ringside at cockfights in both countries as well as in the United States. She focuses especially on the often contradictory policies of the United States toward each nation, which continue to influence the destiny of two important countries and of tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans living in the United States. Her discussion of these critically important national groups is essential for understanding their contribution to politics in our own country, indeed throughout the Western Hemisphere.