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This Was A "bad" Example For U.s. Slaves. Haiti Was Subjected To An Embargo From The United States, Which, Along With Many Other Countries, Refused To Recognize This New Republic.

We Still Have Our People Working In The Cane Fields In The Dominican Republic. People Are Still Repatriated All The Time From The Dominican Republic To Haiti. Some Tell Of Being Taken Off Buses Because They Looked Haitian, And Their Families Have Been In The Dominican Republic For Generations. Haitian Children Born In The Dominican Republic Still Can't Go To School And Are Forced To Work In The Sugarcane Fields.

I Don't Know What Will Happen To The Physical Book And What It Will Mean For Authors. I Worry Whether It Will Mean People Can Still Make Their Careers This Way. Will Whatever Comes Next Allow People To Be Able To Own Their Ideas And Be Able To Take Time To Develop Them?

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And The Fact That Haiti Was Occupied For 19 Years By The United States, From 1915 To 1934.