Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We are all descendants of the Haitian Revolution.” These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The ...

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These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois makes the point that Haiti transformed the world and played an integral role in the ...