I've been reading the Haiti Trilogy by
Madison Smartt Bell, but out of order. It might be good for the study of writing (Bell is also the author or
Narrative Design) to read the books out of order. There are a lot of characters and it can be hard for to keep track of the African, Creole, and French names, like all those similar-seeming names in Lord of the Rings or other fantasy series books. I can see how making a lot of movies and "fanfic" about this trilogy could be great for more unified and accurate views of the world: especially USA foreign policy, immigrant-bashin and "typical Antony Blinken" lying in the course of his work as the Secretary of State for the USA.... At the end of the thrid book one character is sacrificed as "a fanatic" so that soldier in transformatin can save another character. Getting to the second book after the third one made me more sensitive to the creation of "a fanatic": even if the term was used by a character who probably didn't really feel that way about the scarred man...
.> Madison Smartt Bell, author of a three volume series on the Haitian Revolution that begins with the masterful All Souls’ Rising, (all souls being the English translation of Toussaint), wrote this about Toussaint’s end:
.> .> In fact, Toussaint survived a little more than seven months at the Fort de Joux. In the conclusion of his memoir he had written, with a certain insight into Napoleon’s plan for him: “Is it not to cut off someone’s legs and order him to walk? Is it not to cut out his tongue and tell him to talk? Is it not to bury a man alive?” No one wanted to make him a martyr. His bones were lost in a potter’s field, but his spirit, never to be suppressed, helped carry the Haitian Revolution to ultimate victory.
.> Speaking of Haitians being moved around the globe by nonHaitians: today, 61 Haitian migrants who were deported from the US to Haiti in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak here. Haiti had already closed its borders last month in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the virus, but the US was allowed to violate that with this deportation.
https://amywilentz.com/deportations-on-the-anniversary-of-toussaints-death/#
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HaitiTrilogy Deportations on the Anniversary of Toussaint’s DeathIt’s been 217 years since Toussaint died of cold, exposure, and neglect on April 7, 1803, at the Fort de Joux, on a high hilltop in the Doubs, France. He’d been arrested treacherously i…
