October 12, 2022

Killed In the Crade (PT II)

1 hour 29 minutes

Part II is here! And this time, Americans are involved.

Digressions include: We Are the World (For Haiti), Teenage Boys, the Scramble for Africa and Fence Sitting

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Bob Corbett, Review of "FROM DESSALINES TO DUVALIER" by David Nicholls and "HAITI IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: CLASS, RACE, AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT SINCE 1700" by Alex Dupuy, Webster University, (1990)

Catherine Porter, Constant Méheut, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan, The Ransom – The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers, The New York Times (2022)

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