Tag: Haiti

Free Download Ada Ferrer, Vivia Font (Narrator), "Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution"
English | ASIN: B0CTJ5DVLL | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~12:57:00 | 367 MB
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the antithesis of revolutionary emancipation. When Cuban planters and authorities saw the devastation of the neighboring colony, they rushed to fill the void left in the world market for sugar, to buttress the institutions of slavery and colonial rule, and to prevent "another Haiti" from happening in their own territory.
Freedom’s Mirror follows the reverberations of the Haitian Revolution in Cuba, where the violent entrenchment of slavery occurred at the very moment that the Haitian Revolution provided a powerful and proximate example of slaves destroying slavery.

Free Download God Loves Haiti: A Novel by Dimitry Elias Léger
English | January 6, 2015 | ISBN: 0062348132 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.5 MB
A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city.

Free Download Jeffrey Sommers, "Race, Reality, and Realpolitik: U.S.-Haiti Relations in the Lead Up to the 1915 Occupation"
English | ISBN: 1498509142 | 2015 | 158 pages | EPUB | 687 KB
The year 2015 marked the centennial of the 1915 United States occupation of Haiti and Haiti’s resistance to that signal event in its history. This study surveys the issues of economics, race, and realpolitik embedded in the political economy of U.S. interactions with Haiti that resulted in occupation. It then interrogates what constitutes the "state" as it pertains to foreign policy, along with an inspection of who benefits from empire. This approach eschews tired dichotomies of whether or not the United States as a whole materially benefited from empire to instead simply look at who individually gained and what were the capacities of these beneficiaries to craft policy. Next it delivers insights derived from a forensic analysis of Woodrow Wilson’s perception of race and his decision to intervene in Haiti. Attitudes enabling United States military leaders to implement a policy of occupation are provided through a study of Admiral William Caperton’s role in the intervention. The focus then telescopes out to inspect the role played by the press, especially as booster for commercial opportunities. In short, the project answers the questions of why, who, and how American empire was undertaken through the case study of Haiti and its occupation in 1915.

Free Download Amy Wilentz, "Rainy Season: Haiti-Then and Now"
English | 2010 | pages: 448 | ISBN: 143919839X | EPUB | 4,9 mb
Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, "After the Earthquake," features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.

Free Download Michael R. Hall, "Historical Dictionary of Haiti"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0810878100 | EPUB | pages: 330 | 0.9 mb
One of the world’s poorest nations, Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Haiti proclaimed its independence from France on January 1, 1804 following the only successful slave revolt in the Americas. As a result of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), Haiti became the first independent Latin American nation and the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, after the United States. Throughout its history it has suffered political violence, and in 2010 it suffered a devastating earthquake, which killed over 200,000 people and countless people lost homes and businesses.

Free Download Amy Goodman, "Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup"
English | 2004 | pages: 198 | ISBN: 1567513190, 1567513182 | PDF | 18,7 mb
Did Aristide leave Haiti voluntarily? Why did the U.S. want him out? What does the regime change mean for the health of Haitians? Did Aristide "overstay his welcome," in the words of Vice President Dick Cheney, who never had a welcome in his own country to overstay? After 35 coups, what does the double entendre mean to get Haiti "right" this time?