RWBF:Introduction

ABOUT this AMAZING REVOLUTION ... The revolution that created the country now known as Haiti is one of the most remarkable and dramatic events in history. It is full of the stuff of novels: wealth, skullduggery, pirates, fierce battles, politics, love, betrayal and murder. It is also a singularly useful key for understanding the development of the Western Hemisphere over the last 200 years. Coming as it did hot on the heels of the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution expressed in violent and radical terms