![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the Haitian people have never given up on their struggle for true democracy. He also shows the internal debates about what Haiti should do with its hard won liberty that alienated the nations leaders from the broader population, setting the stage for enduring political conflict. ![]() At the same time, he explores Haitis overlooked successes as its revolution created a resilient culture insistent on autonomy and equality. ![]() He details how the indemnity imposed by the former French rulers initiated a devastating cycle of debt, while frequent interventions by the United States Including a twenty-year occupation, and the internal divisions and political chaos that are the inevitable consequences of centuries of subversion, further undermined Haitis independence. The author depicts the isolation and impoverishment that followed the 1804 uprising. But as the author, a historian makes clear, its difficulties are rooted not only in its founding revolution, the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world but also in the hostility that this rebellion generated among the colonial powers and the intense struggle within Haiti itself to define its newfound freedom and realize its promise. About the Book Even before the 2010 earthquake destroyed much of the country, Haiti was known as a benighted place of poverty and corruption, and has often been blamed for its own wretchedness. ![]()
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