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Haiti
A Shattered Nation
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And I'm going to quote now from a book titled Haiti, the Devalier and Their Legacy by Elizabeth Abbott. Tusant's faith in the Haitian people's determination was justified when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General L. Clerk, to fight a war of extermination, his words, against the Haitians.
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“And I'm going to quote now from a book titled Haiti, the Devalier and Their Legacy by Elizabeth Abbott. Tusant's faith in the Haitian people's determination was justified when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General L. Clerk, to fight a war of extermination, his words, against the Haitians.”
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“And this excerpt from the book Haiti, the Devalier and their legacy makes it clear that this was not a good thing. Though the Americans insisted on the simplence of democracy, they refused even the slightest democratic substance. Nowhere was this more obvious than in American sponsored Haitian presidential elections.”