Jean Robert Cadet: 2 books
My Stone of Hope
From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There are 27 million slaves living in the world today—more than at any time in history. Three hundred thousand of them are impoverished children in Haiti, who "stay with" families as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers, subject to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. This practice, known locally...
Restavec
From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
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...