African Americans and the First Black Republic
It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence
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Haitian Revolution
Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But
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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution
African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US
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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: A New Book on Afro-Cuban Writers and Diasporic Religions
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism
This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”
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