The Black Jacobins - Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intensely dramatic book is the definitive a...

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Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti’s leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong di...

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Contrary Destinies: A Century of America's Occupation, Deoccupation,and Reoccupation of Haiti

“Provides a wealth of information about the nature of American occupations in Haiti that can be useful to Latin American historians and po...

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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World David P.Geggus

The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlant...

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From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and PanAmericanism, 1870-1964

"A remarkable new analysis of how African Americans and Haitians interacted over the long term. It asserts bold new methods and conc...

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Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States

In four sections—Childhood, Migration, First Generation, and Return—the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly,...

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Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry

Early in the twentieth century, the Cuban sugarcane industry faced a labor crisis when Cuban and European workers balked at the inhumane c...

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Haiti, History, and the Gods

In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history b...

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When Night Falls, Kric! Krac!: Haitian Folktales

When night falls in Haiti, it's time for stories. The storyteller says kric, the audience responds krac, and all of the children becom...

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Echoes of the Haitian Revolution, 1804-2004

The bicentenary of Haitian independence in 2004 triggered a renewed interest in Haitian history and culture. In many ways, however, much w...

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Rock Art of the Caribbean

This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear t...

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Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins

What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou...

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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue

In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the independent nation of Haiti after the only successful slave uprising in world history. [John_D...

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Haiti's New Dictatorship: The Coup, the Earthquake and the UN Occupation

In 1804 Haiti became the world's first independent black Republic following a slave revolution. 200 years later, ravaged by colonialis...

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The Haitian Vodou Handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa

A working guide to the proper methods of interacting with the full Vodou pantheon • Includes the myths, cultural heritage, and ancestral ...

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Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean

The Caribbean crises of the Cold War are revealed as never before in this riveting story of clashing ideologies, the rise of the politics ...

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Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti's Indigenous Spiritual Tradition

Haitian Vodou is a fascinating spiritual tradition rich with ceremonies and magic, songs and prayers, dances and fellowship. Yet outside o...

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Vodou Shaman: The Haitian Way of Healing and Power

Goes beyond the stereotypes to restore Vodou to its proper place as a powerful shamanic tradition • Provides practical exercises and tech...

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The Book of Vodou

Vodou is magic. But it's also much more! It's a religion of charms and rituals intended to empower life and bring good fortune to ...

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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

Does the scientific “theory” that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the U...

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