Impact The Outcome

Over the years, the original text was rewritten and changed many times. This caused Thomas Madiou’s contribution to be forgotten, deformed as well as not properly cited. For example, when Maximilien Laroche wrote an article called La bataille de Vertières et le Cahier -d’un retour au pays natal: deux westerns du Tiers-Monde, he took his information from Madiou’s work, but never quoted him. Documents written on the Haitian’s revolution covered the following subjects: the causes leading to the revolution, the French’s glory, the army of “brigands” leaded by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the “dictatorship” of Toussaint Louverture. Haiti is part of our history, but not our memory. We all forgot how we became the first black Republic of the world, how we defeated Napoleon’s army before anyone else. We all remember that we were once slaves, but we forgot that we also brought down an army of racists. Now is the time to remember and to be proud.   Source: Jean-Pierre Le Glaurec, L'armee indigene la defaite de Napoleon en