Regarding Bicentennial: Haitis Gift to the World: I read your book Bicentennial and to tell you the truth, I have never read Haitian History this way before. What really motivated you to make a presentation in that fashion?
For a long time historians treated history as though it were the chronicle of the lives of the rich, famous, and powerful. History books were used as just another way to immortalize such people. Many books on Haitian history have also fallen into this trap. We wanted to write a book that we could pass on to our children to help them understand the Haitian family journey from various places in the world to Haiti and to the diaspora. From this perspective, what becomes important is how we have come to be Haitians. Our history is to explain who we are, why we worship, speak, eat, play, dress, and work in distinctive ways. We also recognize that we are important determinants of the course of our lives. As the main cast in our history, the Haitian people deserve to be treated respectfully. Too often writers write about history as though it were a treatise on the defense of their social class and buddies. Modern historians have now recognized this problem and use archeological records, even
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