Reviewed by By Kenneth Maxwell
Trouillot,
a distinguished Haitian scholar who teaches at The Johns Hopkins
University, has produced a sparkling interrogation of the past. He
examines the suppression of the role of Africans in the Haitian
Revolution to demonstrate how power silences certain voices from
history. The background is the "war within the war." As Napoleonic
France attempted to reestablish imperial control and eventually slavery,
black creoles -- natives of the island or the Caribbean -- fought
dissident groups composed of Bossales -- African-born ex-slaves mainly
from the Congo.
