The people of Haiti waged a war and won it. They created a nation out of a savagely dazzling colonial jewel in the might French empire. The fact of their achievement, of the wrestling of national freedom from one of the most powerful nations on the face of the earth by lowly, illiterate, and cruelly divided Black slaves has its own core of monumental drama. One need not bow to the impulse to embellish it with romantic racism.
Young, Gifted, & Black– Lorraine Hansberry









