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      THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION: LEGACY AND ACTUALITY

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            The main objective of this article is to help to correct the partial and undervalued image that is spread globally about Haiti: a country that is all too often presented as the Western Hemisphere's poorest, without reference to the factors that have led to its current situation. Extraordinary aspects of its history are overlooked, particularly the many gains made by its inhabitants - slaves of African origin, who not only created the great wealth that enabled France to develop capitalism, but also managed to abolish slavery and achieve national independence. This article argues that it is essential to understand the Haitian Revolution, over 200 years after its triumph, in order to reflect upon the profound social importance of this event led by slaves - a feature that explains its peculiarities, historical significance and the stigma that it and the Haitian nation have suffered.

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            intejcubastud
            10.2307/j50005551
            International Journal of Cuban Studies
            Pluto Journals
            17563461
            1 October 2010
            1 December 2010
            : 2
            : 3/4
            : 286-300
            Article
            10.2307/41945908
            7ee603bd-bd4b-4ab7-a803-306b67313538
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            Haiti: Views from Cuba

            Literary studies,Arts,Social & Behavioral Sciences,History,Cultural studies,Economics

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            6. Lloyd A. Best (1934-2007),

            7. Girvan, Cooperation in the Greater Caribbean, p. 4.

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            9. Juan B. Bosch, De Cristóbal Colón a Fidel Castro: el Caribe frontera imperial (La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1981), p. 20.

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            11. Bosch, De Cristobal Colón a Fidel Castro, pp. 9-19.

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            15. Fernando Ortiz, 'Anagó vocabulario Lucumí que se habla en Cuba', in Lydia Cabrera, El Monte (Havana: Ediciones C R, 1957).

            16. Eduard Kamau Brathwaite, 'Presencia africana en la literatura del Caribe', in Moreno Fraginals (ed.) África en América Latina (Paris: UNESCO, 1977), p. 152.

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            18. Aimé Cesaire, Toussaint Louverture. La Revolución Francesa y el problema colonial (Havana: Instituto del Libro, 1967), p. 381.

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            22. Césaire, Toussaint Louverture, p. 403.

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            24. Césaire, Toussaint Louverture, p. 284.

            25. Victor Schadcher, Vie de Toussaint Louverture (Paris: Cátala, 1982), p. 90.

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            27. Alejo Carpentier, 'Las culturas de los pueblos que habitan en las tierras del mar Caribe', Anales del Caribe 9, Havana, Casa de las Américas, p. 201.

            28. Jean Victor Généus, Autant en Emporte La Revolution: Notes sur la contribution d'Haïti a la lutte des peuples pour la libération (Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Bibliothèque Nacional d'Haïti, 2008).

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