29297: Reply RE: 29279: Simidor (comment): The name Ayiti (Haiti) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: thor burnham <thorald_mb@hotmail.com>

Expanding on Simidor's poetic intervention, David Geggus makes a compelling 
argument concerning the naming of Haiti while providing a dense overview of its 
most likely origins. He uses both earlier French and Spanish sources. It's in 
his final chapter of his very excellent edited volume_Haitian Revolutionary 
Studies_

I believe it is a (slightly revised?) version of his 1997 article of the same 
title that appeared in_The New West Indian Guide_  in 1997.

best,
Thor Burnham