... nation set the pattern for the future development of Haiti. After forming a tenuous alliance to fend off the colonizers, the "ancient libres", consisting mostly of mulattoes, and the "nouveaux libres", almost entirely black, faced one another over matters of property ownership. Dessalines realized that most of the people were still being repressed by an unbalanced class system. He made it clear ... world " (Mason, 121) Baby Doc The horror associated with the Duvalier name didn't come to an end with "Papa Doc's" death in 1971. He was succeeded by his son Jean Claude, "Baby Doc". Needless...

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... vulnerable to coups and civil strife. Both of these have been the norm in Haiti since the end of the Revolution. From 1957 to 1986 by Franzois and then Jean Claude Duvalier, dictators supported by the military. Their authoritarian policies made them worse than kings. Thousands of Haitians felt it prudent to leave the country. The problem with military dictators is ... , the coercion by large brigades of armed men. What is radical about one group of people killing another and supplanting them, only to succumb to infighting and wind up in almost the same situation? Radical is the notion th...

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