Years ago, reading Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones left me wanting to learn more about the history of Haiti.  An island nation with so dramatic and bloody a story – you’d think there would be more books devoted to it.  Not so.  I finally discovered The Black Jacobins:  Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James thanks to my local indie bookstore … Continue reading Learning about Haiti – The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James