By Nigel Westmaas
“Haiti has repeatedly been punished for its original sin of racial insurgency”
-Johnhenry Gonzalez, Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti
Toussaint Louverture
Haiti’s revolutionary history and the real sources of its perennial failure as a nation state in modern times has too often been denied, sanitized or ignored in general narratives about the country and society.
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