Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American by Jean-Robert Cadet

Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American

Jean-Robert Cadet

200 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 t...

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