America Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“In 1803, President Jefferson oversaw the purchase of this land from the French for $15 million. It doesn't sound like much for an area…

— Dave Gorman

Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200…

— Thabo Mbeki

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in…

— Edwidge Danticat

“Even today, most US history textbooks tell the story of the Louisiana Purchase without admitting that slave revolution in Saint-Domingue made it possible. And…

— Edward E. Baptist

It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians…

— Pat Robertson

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains…

— Paul Farmer

At the time Latin America was composed only of colonies. We were up against the biggest army of the colonial world, the Napoleonic army.…

— Michele Montas

The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that…

— Noam Chomsky

“Once all the gold and silver had been thoroughly stolen, the empires found even greater sources of wealth by laying a belt of plantation…

— Edward E. Baptist

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

— Edward Ball

“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home in the…

— Timothy C.W. Blanning

“The wars in Europe engulfed much of the world, precipitating and facilitating innumerable local conflicts in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including the Haitian…

— Troy Bickham