Haitian Revolution 
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/4/2021
Overturning Five Myths of the Haitian Revolution
by Julia Gaffield
Many understandings of the Haitian Revolution, from its intellectual and political roots, to its military progress, to its political consequences, are at best half-truths. And it did not entail "white genocide."
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SOURCE: U.S. Intellectual History Blog
7/24/2021
Burning It All Down
by L.D. Burnett
Louis Trouillot's commentary on historiography and the slippage between history as fact and history as narrative shows how academic gatekeepers who resist revisionist challenges to their fields play into the hands of bad faith actors who would prefer to silence historians entirely.
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7/25/2021
Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti
by Alan J. Singer
"The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/21/2021
The United States Owes Haiti a Debt it Can't Repay
by Annette Gordon-Reed
The Haitian Revolution set in motion events that transformed France, North America, and the Caribbean, but conflicts were invariably resolved at the expense of independent Haiti.
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SOURCE: NPR
7/11/2021
The Historical, Political And Social Conditions That Led Haiti To Turbulence
Haiti's troubles go back more than a century. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Brooklyn College professor Jean-Eddy Saint Paul about the country's history.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
7/5/2021
AAIHS Book Club: Jean Casimir's "The Haitians" (Convenes Online in August)
The African American Intellectual History Society will convene an online book club discussing Jean Casimir's "The Haitians: A Decolonial History" with events beginning in August.
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SOURCE: NPR
7/4/2021
What The Haitian Revolution Tells Us About The U.S. Movement For Racial Equality
Historian Marlene Daut on the significance of the Haitian Revolution for America's unfinished struggle for racial equality.
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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: 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: Atlanta Black Star
9-26-13
15 Black Uprisings Against European and Arab Oppression They Won’t Teach in Schools
The Atlanta Black Star features slave revolts brushed under the rug in Western textbooks.
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