I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
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This episode explores the life and legacy of Haiti’s founding father, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, through the lens of historian Dr. Julia Gaffield. Drawing from untapped...
Timeline of Haitian History
“Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and...
Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination
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Episode #84 - Part 1/2
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These excerpts provide a compelling introduction to Dr. Dubuisson's book and its central arguments. This compelling interview highlights the complexity...
Haiti Since 1804: Critical Perspectives on Class, Power, and Gender
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Podcast Summary: "Haiti Since 1804" – A Conversation with Dr. Alex Dupuy and Dr. Robert Fatton
In this deep and provocative episode, host Patrick Jean-Baptiste...
The Colonial System Unveiled
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Of the many topics discussed in this interview, none stuck with me more than the Baron de Vastey toast described below.
The year is 1816....
Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964
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Like my guest today, I’ve never found it particularly useful to cast François Duvalier as some frothing, otherworldly monster. That story is too easy....
The Land Remembers: Tourism, Legacy, and the Haitian Future
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Haiti, land of contradictions they say, where the past is not just remembered but lived. The soil still carries the footprints of revolution, the...
Blood as Currency: Gender, Violence, and Power in When the Mapou...
When the Mapou Sings: Haiti’s History in Verse and Silence
The minute I opened When the Mapou Sings, I was grateful that I did not...
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall...
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Whenever I hear 1804 Haitian fanatics—those who shout with fevered breath about the glories of the Haitian Revolution, about the unshakable will of Christophe,...
Stones by Stones. Words to Deeds
The Citadelle Henry and the palace of Sans-Souci still stand, two centuries later. Stone upon stone, carved from sweat and will, they endure. What...
