17758: radtimes: Fwd: [IAC] New Book: Haiti a Slave Revolution (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: radtimes <resist@best.com>

>From: <ActionCenter.actgen@action-mail.org> (Action Center)
>
>The International Action Center and Haiti Support Network are proud to
>commemorate Haiti's 200 years of struggle against racism and colonialism
>by publishing a unique and deeply informative book -- "Haiti: A Slave
>Revolution -- 200 Years After 1804".
>
>This book will provide essential background to understand the current
>situation in Haiti, where a group calling itself the the "Group of 184" or
>the "Democratic Convergence" although it is fully funded by the United
>States, is trying to overthrow the popularly elected president,
>Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
>
>The successful revolution in Haiti against the French slave owners is a
>singular event in the history of the world.  It is the only time that
>slaves managed to rise up, smash their oppressors and set up a new state
>and social order that reflected some of their aspirations and
>hopes.  Between half and two-thirds of all the Haitian people died in the
>twelve years of this desperate, successful struggle that led to the first
>free Black nation.
>
>This book not only details how this struggle sstrongly shocked the United
>States and the other slave owning states of the early nineteenth century
>but connects it historically to another event that profoundly upset U.S.
>imperialism -- the election of Jean-Bertrand Aristide as Haiti's president
>in 1990.
>
>This is a people's history of Haiti with contributions from noted authors
>and activists, like Ramsey Clark, Edwidge Danticat, Frederick Douglass,
>Ben Dupuy and Sara Flounders.
>
>If you would like to buy this book online with a credit card, you can go to:
>
>      http://www.leftbooks.com/online-store/scstore/p-biac2004hsr.html
>
>If you want to buy this book through the U.S. mail or, in a few cities
>like Boston, New York, Brooklyn, San Diego or Philadelphia in person, you
>can go to:
>
>      http://www.iacenter.org/haiti/IACbkorder.htm
>
>for information.  Or you can send a check for $19.95, which covers the
>cost of the book and shipping, to:
>
>      International Action Center      39 W. 14th St., Suite 206
>      New York, NY 10011
>
>If you would like to see the table of contents, the cover and as many of
>the chapters as we have permission to post on the Internet, go to:
>
>      http://www.iacenter.org/haiti/
>
>
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