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Restavec From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American

Paperback • 1998 • English

Restavec From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American

By Jean-Robert Cadet

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About the book

African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were—and still are—restavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of "staying with" disguises the unremitting labor, abuse, and denial of education that characterizes the children's ...Show more

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9780292712034

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published year

1998

Language

English

Original title

Restavec From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American

Format

Paperback

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