Haiti 
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SOURCE: Medium
1/4/2020
Who was Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Why Does He Matter Now?
by Julia Gaffield
The anniversary of Haitian independence is occasion to rethink the legacy of the nation's first head of state, the uncompromising opponent of slavery and colonialism Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
11/30/2020
Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’
The African American Intellectual History Society will present next week a series of responses to Dr. Brandon Byrd's 2019 book examining the relationship between Black American intellectuals and activists and the Republic of Haiti.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
6/30/2020
When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History
by Marlene Daut
Because the indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced to compensate those who had once enslaved them, Haiti should be at the center of the global movement for reparations.
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6/14/2020
Tear Down that Statue, Mr. Macron!
by Marlene L. Daut
Four figures from French history whose statues could replace that of Jefferson in Paris.
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SOURCE: Public Books
4/7/2020
Lessons from Haiti on Living and Dying
by Marlene L. Daut
The late historian C.L.R. James sought to disavow the importance of one of Haiti’s most storied revolutionary heroes to reveal the role played by the Revolution’s masses and less visible leaders, reflecting that each life and death is profoundly poltical.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/9/2020
The History of Slavery Remains With Us Today
by Ariela Gross and Alejandro de la Fuente
Two historians trace how law and institutions developed around anti-black ideology in the Americas.
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5/5/19
Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy
by Ken Lawrence
Both the U.S. and Haiti claim the island. Here's why its history matters.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/28/19
The Other Notre-Dame Was Not Rebuilt
by Amy Wilentz
Perhaps France should help Haiti, its former colony, rebuild the cathedral lost in the 2010 earthquake.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
1/28/19
Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change
by Crystal Eddins
Marginalized communities of color and nations of the Global South are generally most vulnerable to natural disasters associated with climate change.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/23/19
Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’
by Marlene Daut
With “Black Panther” receiving multiple Oscar nods, it’s time to look at the closest thing to Wakanda that has existed: the Kingdom of Hayti.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1-14-18
Donald Trump doesn’t understand Haiti, immigration or American history
by Chantalle F. Verna
Donald Trump’s denigrating comments about Haiti during a recent congressional meeting shocked people around the globe, but given his track record of disrespecting immigrants, they were not actually that surprising.
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SOURCE: New Republic
11-28-16
Historian is first to write a scholarly biography of Toussaint Louverture in 80 years
Why was Haiti's revolutionary overlooked by historians for so long?
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
8-23-16
The U.N. Is Commemorating Haiti’s Role in Ending the Slave Trade. Here’s Why.
by Manisha Sinha
The nation was a beacon for the anti-slavery cause.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-4-14
Jean-Claude Duvalier, ‘Baby Doc’ of Haiti, Dies at 63
Mr. Duvalier continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere, following in the footsteps of his father, François, known as Papa Doc, who died in 1971.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10-28-13
Confronting the Legacies of Slavery
by Laurent Dubois
How to best deal with the transnational history of slavery.
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Thomas Jefferson's Nightmare
by Thomas Fleming
Incendie de la Plaine du Cap. - Massacre des Blancs par les Noirs, 1833.This article is adapted from Thomas Fleming’s new book, A Disease In the Public Mind – A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil War. Part two of a three-part series (read part one here).
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SOURCE: WaPo
4-3-13
Haitian historian Georges Corvington, who chronicled the country’s capital, dies at age 88
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Georges Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation’s capital of Port-au-Prince, died Wednesday at age 88, a close friend said.Fellow historian and longtime friend Georges Michel said that Corvington died peacefully in his sleep at his home in the capital he wrote so much about. Michel said Covington had recently spent a few weeks in the hospital and the cause of death was heart failure.“He’s a giant that has fallen,” said Michel, who is also a physician. “He was the greatest living Haitian historian.”...
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SOURCE: WaPo
2-6-13
Educators push to bring Haiti’s native Creole language to the front of the class
...[L]ess than 10 percent of [Haiti]’s 10 million people speak French fluently, and in most schools, even the teachers don’t understand it very well although they’re asked to teach in it.The private Louverture Cleary School has already broken from that linguistic tradition and is instead emphasizing the Haitian Creole children speak at home. The school is also introducing students to Spanish from other parts of the Caribbean and the English they will likely need in the future....Haiti’s 1805 Constitution declared that tuition would be free and attendance compulsory for primary students. But the quality of education lagged through the years, and plunged during the 29-year-long dynasty of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude, or “Baby Doc,” which ended in 1986. Haiti’s professionals fled into exile to escape political repression, spawning a major brain drain the country has never bounced back from....
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