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Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

~Edwidge Danticat

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On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.

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On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

~Edwidge Danticat

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Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.

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Topics: After America American Army Been Big Chunk Depleted Driven Fighting Forces Free Free People French Had Haiti His Little Little Money Money Napoleon North North America Out People Revolution Slaves Sold Stopped Very Were

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More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

~Edwidge Danticat

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In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

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In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

~Edwidge Danticat

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In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way.

~Edwidge Danticat

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I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when It's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

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I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

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Biography

Nationality: Haitian

Type: Author

Born: January 19th, 1969

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