Author: John and Joyce Hanson
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449791484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyce's faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miner's son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. "Inspiring...Genuine" -Stewart Farley "Dynamic Testimony...Laced with Adventure" -Dave Hanson "Superb...Powerful" -Donald Stelting
Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master
Author: John and Joyce Hanson
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449791484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyce's faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miner's son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. "Inspiring...Genuine" -Stewart Farley "Dynamic Testimony...Laced with Adventure" -Dave Hanson "Superb...Powerful" -Donald Stelting
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449791484
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyce's faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting Haiti-Led by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miner's son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. "Inspiring...Genuine" -Stewart Farley "Dynamic Testimony...Laced with Adventure" -Dave Hanson "Superb...Powerful" -Donald Stelting
Harvesting Haiti—Led by the Master
Author: Christine Barbetto-Feamster
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449791492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyces faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting HaitiLed by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miners son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. InspiringGenuine Stewart Farley Dynamic TestimonyLaced with Adventure Dave Hanson SuperbPowerful Donald Stelting
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449791492
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From the coalfields of West Virginia to the small country of Haiti in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, John and Joyce Hanson share their 43-year missionary journey with writer Christine Barbetti-Feamster. Through numerous tropical storms, a kidnapping, an earthquake that threatened to destroy all they ever worked for, and personal tragedy, John and Joyces faith has triumphed for the glory of God. When you read Harvesting HaitiLed by the Master be prepared to laugh, cry, and be awed by the miracles of a faithful God who chose a humble coal miners son and his wife to bring salvation to thousands of lost souls in Haiti. InspiringGenuine Stewart Farley Dynamic TestimonyLaced with Adventure Dave Hanson SuperbPowerful Donald Stelting
Harvesting Haiti
Author: Myriam J. A. Chancy
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477327819
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster. As Chancy explains, this work "remains pertinent to discussions of Haiti today and to understand what was being discussed in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which continues to mark the country today, is relevant to what may or may not be possible for its future." The volume is organized into five parts, each with a thematic focus that reveals an important element for the context of post-earthquake Haiti. Part I provides political contexts and background, and includes pieces on international aid, Haiti's exclusion from global trade, and overarching issues in the battle for sovereignty. In Part II, an interview and two essays based on invited talks problematize the media's portrayal of gendered issues in the wake of the disaster. Part III takes an artistic turn with a poem and photo essay. Part IV preserves essays originally published in a column in a discontinued magazine insert for The Trinidad Express. Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"--
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477327819
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that followed decades of political, social, and financial issues. Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a struggling nation. In this book, Myriam Chancy encourages us to look at Haiti and to continue to examine the historical and present structures that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions. And as Haiti is newly recovering from another 7.2 magnitude earthquake from August 2021, the questions that Chancy seeks to answer and the stories she aims to document seem all the more urgent. Originally presented at invited campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago, or other venues, the essays in Harvesting Haiti respond to a particular moment and preserve the reactions and urgencies in the years following the 2010 disaster. As Chancy explains, this work "remains pertinent to discussions of Haiti today and to understand what was being discussed in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, which continues to mark the country today, is relevant to what may or may not be possible for its future." The volume is organized into five parts, each with a thematic focus that reveals an important element for the context of post-earthquake Haiti. Part I provides political contexts and background, and includes pieces on international aid, Haiti's exclusion from global trade, and overarching issues in the battle for sovereignty. In Part II, an interview and two essays based on invited talks problematize the media's portrayal of gendered issues in the wake of the disaster. Part III takes an artistic turn with a poem and photo essay. Part IV preserves essays originally published in a column in a discontinued magazine insert for The Trinidad Express. Part V looks to the impact of the earthquake on the already vexed relationship between Haiti and their neighbor, the Dominican Republic. The book concludes with a reflection from five years after the earthquake, and then the tenth anniversary of the disaster"--
Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
Author: Michael P. Johnson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books In 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. In a day when most Americans, black and white, worked the soil, barely scraping together a living, Ellison was a cotton-gin maker—a master craftsman. When nearly all free blacks were destitute, Ellison was wealthy and well-established. He owned a large plantation and more slaves than all but the richest white planters. While Ellison was exceptional in many respects, the story of his life sheds light on the collective experience of African Americans in the antebellum South to whom he remained bound by race. His family history emphasizes the fine line separating freedom from slavery.
Fixing Haiti
Author: Jorge Heine
Publisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN: 9280811975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.
Publisher: United Nations University Press
ISBN: 9280811975
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.
We Have Dared to Be Free
Author: Dady Chery
Publisher: News Junkie Post Press
ISBN: 9780996653503
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Dady Chery's We Have Dared to Be Free was written between 2010 and 2015. This book is based on a lifelong wealth of knowledge, and it is essential to understand Haiti's complex and extraordinary journey. Dady Chery was born and raised in Haiti and, as such, is proud to call herself natif natal. Before the 2010 earthquake, her professional life was wholly dedicated to science. Like so many Haitians, either still living on the island or from the diaspora, the quake turned her life upside down. It was a wake-up call for Chery. Since then she has given a voice to the voiceless and worked to make Haitians proud of their rich culture and unique history. In her lexicon, Haiti should not be called the poorest nation of the Western hemisphere but, rather, the only republic from a successful slave revolution. Before Chery came on the scene in 2010, the English-language journalistic narrative about Haiti was mainly controlled by a few Western journalists, whom she calls colonists of the mind, or often took the form of frustrated rants from the diaspora. Much of Dady Chery's information is unavailable in English anywhere else. She offers a crisp, beautifully written discourse that allows us to connect the dots to see the bigger picture. Haiti has been a runaway experiment in humanitarian imperialism since 2004. Chery points out that the methods refined there by the United States and its collaborators in the United Nations mission and non-governmental organizations are already coming home to roost. We Have Dared to Be Free is a five-year literary journey through destruction, pain, occupation, corruption and death, from which Dady Chery brings her compatriots and all people who are oppressed the tools to overcome adversity and the sense that adversity can and must be overcome. - Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post
Publisher: News Junkie Post Press
ISBN: 9780996653503
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Dady Chery's We Have Dared to Be Free was written between 2010 and 2015. This book is based on a lifelong wealth of knowledge, and it is essential to understand Haiti's complex and extraordinary journey. Dady Chery was born and raised in Haiti and, as such, is proud to call herself natif natal. Before the 2010 earthquake, her professional life was wholly dedicated to science. Like so many Haitians, either still living on the island or from the diaspora, the quake turned her life upside down. It was a wake-up call for Chery. Since then she has given a voice to the voiceless and worked to make Haitians proud of their rich culture and unique history. In her lexicon, Haiti should not be called the poorest nation of the Western hemisphere but, rather, the only republic from a successful slave revolution. Before Chery came on the scene in 2010, the English-language journalistic narrative about Haiti was mainly controlled by a few Western journalists, whom she calls colonists of the mind, or often took the form of frustrated rants from the diaspora. Much of Dady Chery's information is unavailable in English anywhere else. She offers a crisp, beautifully written discourse that allows us to connect the dots to see the bigger picture. Haiti has been a runaway experiment in humanitarian imperialism since 2004. Chery points out that the methods refined there by the United States and its collaborators in the United Nations mission and non-governmental organizations are already coming home to roost. We Have Dared to Be Free is a five-year literary journey through destruction, pain, occupation, corruption and death, from which Dady Chery brings her compatriots and all people who are oppressed the tools to overcome adversity and the sense that adversity can and must be overcome. - Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post
The Making of Haiti
Author: Carolyn E. Fick
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"The present work is an attempt to illustrate the nature and the impact of the popular mentality and popular movements on the course of revolutionary (and, in part, postrevolutionary) events in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue." --pref.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"The present work is an attempt to illustrate the nature and the impact of the popular mentality and popular movements on the course of revolutionary (and, in part, postrevolutionary) events in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue." --pref.
The Sugar Masters
Author: Richard Follett
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807132470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Focusing on the master-slave relationship in Louisiana's antebellum sugarcane country, The Sugar Masters explores how a modern, capitalist mind-set among planters meshed with old-style paternalistic attitudes to create one of the South's most insidiously oppressive labor systems. As author Richard Follett vividly demonstrates, the agricultural paradise of Louisiana's thriving sugarcane fields came at an unconscionable cost to slaves. Thanks to technological and business innovations, sugar planters stood as models of capitalist entrepreneurship by midcentury. But above all, labor management was the secret to their impressive success. Follett explains how in exchange for increased productivity and efficiency they offered their slaves a range of incentives, such as greater autonomy, improved accommodations, and even financial remuneration. These material gains, however, were only short term. According to Follett, many of Louisiana's sugar elite presented their incentives with a "facade of paternal reciprocity" that seemingly bound the slaves' interests to the apparent goodwill of the masters, but in fact, the owners sought to control every aspect of the slaves's lives, from reproduction to discretionary income. Slaves responded to this display of paternalism by trying to enhance their rights under bondage, but the constant bargaining process invariably led to compromises on their part, and the grueling production pace never relented. The only respite from their masters' demands lay in fashioning their own society, including outlets for religion, leisure, and trade. Until recently, scholars have viewed planters as either paternalistic lords who eschewed marketplace values or as entrepreneurs driven to business success. Follett offers a new view of the sugar masters as embracing both the capitalist market and a social ideology based on hierarchy, honor, and paternalism. His stunning synthesis of empirical research, demographics study, and social and cultural history sets a new standard for this subject.
The Haitian Revolution
Author: Toussaint L'Ouverture
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788736575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L'Ouverture's profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788736575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide demonstrates L'Ouverture's profound contribution to the struggle for equality.
Needed But Unwanted
Author: Bridget Wooding
Publisher: CIIR
ISBN: 9781852873035
Category : Dominican Republic
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher: CIIR
ISBN: 9781852873035
Category : Dominican Republic
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description