haiti

Junior, a seven-year-old boy, is trapped under his house after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, and his vivid imagination helps him find the strength to survive.

Presents an introduction to Haiti, in simple text with illustrations, describing its geography, history, government, climate, people, and culture.

Photographs and text profile the history, geography, government, and people of Haiti, and highlight the country's main cultural and social traditions.

As governmental brutality and poverty become unbearable, Paulie joins with others in her small Haitian village to help her uncle secretly build a boat they will use to try to escape to the United States.

Jean Paul and his family risk their lives to immigrate to America from Haiti in 1991.

Years after Haiti's liberation from French colonial rule, while King Henri Christophe reigns with brutality, and Ti No?l, an elderly slave, practices animal magic with his fellow slave, Macandal.

A comparative study of the revolutions that transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds during the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, describing the factors that destabilized the old regimes, the techniques of successful popular mobilization, and the roles played by enslaved Africans and Native Americans.

A biography of Haitian revolutionary leader Toussaint Louverture, looking at his life as a slave and a slave-owner, and arguing that his sometimes controversial actions can be attributed to his desire to win freedom for the slaves of Saint Domingue.

An assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals how the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, assessing the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.

Presents an account of the slave rebellion in the French slave colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791 which led to the emancipation of the slaves, and eventually to the founding of the independent nation of Haiti.