Its Haitian Heritage Month. To celebrate and help take up your time during these uncertain times, we're going to recommend books on Haitian history and culture.
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For our first recommendation, we suggest CLR Jame's classic, Black Jocabins. Black Jocabins helps to resituate Haiti's Revolution in the wider history of the Atlantic Revolutions and strongly influenced black power Movements from Trinidad to Johannesburg. #HaitianHeritageMonth

For our 2nd suggestion, we recommend Avengers of the New World by Laurent Dubois. Following the footsteps of Black Jocabins, Avengers provides readers with an accessible narrative that takes advantage of recent historiography. #HaitianHeritageMonth #HaitianTwitter

For today's suggestion, we recommend the Common Wind, by Julius Scott. Scott highlights how slaves and freedmen used commerce in the Carribbeanean to smuggle information, circulate ideas, and create opportunities to resist slavery. #HaitianHeritageMonth #HaitianTwitter

For today's suggestion, we recommend the Making of Haiti by Carolyn Fick. Fick takes our attention away from well-known figures to look at what the Revolution was like from the perspectives of independent maroon bands and the common rebel.

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For today, we suggest the Impact of the Haitian Revolution by David Geggus. This collection of articles takes us from the shores of Columbia to Germany to explore the slow-moving ripple effect of the Revolution on the Atlantic World.

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For today's suggestion, we recommend Slave Revolution in the Caribbean by John Garrigus and Laurent Dubois. This book and collection documents are good at providing a brief study of the Revolution and providing students the chance to study primary sources.

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Today, we recommend Migration and Vodou by Karen Richman. In this study, Richman explores how Haitian migrants maintain religious and familial connections to their homeland. A CD is included to show how technology facilitates these spiritual connections.

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Today, we suggest Toussaint L'Ouverture and the American Civil War by Mathew Calvin. This book explores how the memory of slave revolution shaped the perspectives of African Americans, Abolitionists, and Pro-Slavery partisans during the Civil War era. #HaitianHeritageMonth

For today's recommendation, we suggest Chicago's Authentic Founder by Marc Rosier. In this study, Rosier recounts the life of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a black frontiersman from Haiti and Chicago's first non-native settler. #HaitianHeritageMonth #Chicago #Haitian

If you want to learn more about DuSable, the Windy City Historians podcast has a discussion on him in episode 8 of their podcast. http://windycityhistorians.com/episode-8-the-first-settler/… #HaitianHeritageMonth #Chicago #Haitian