University Press of America
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978-0-7618-3177-8 • Paperback • November 2005 • $106.99 • (£82.00)
978-1-4930-8397-8 • eBook • November 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
Robert Debs Heinl, deceased, and Nancy Gordon Heinl, both writers and historians, lived in Haiti from 1959 to 1963. Robert Heinl was Chief of the U.S. Naval Mission to Haiti until he was declared persona non grata by François Duvalier. He retired from the Marine Corps in 1964 and wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column until his death in 1979. Nancy Gordon Heinl was an independent writer and journalist who wrote extensively on black history and voodoo. Born in London, she came to the United States in 1933. She died in 1997. Michael Heinl received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an international business consultant in Washington, D.C.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introducing Haiti
Chapter 3 A Very Great Island
Chapter 4 Bois Cayman and Carmagnole: 1492-1788
Chapter 5 I Am Toussaint Louverture: 1794-1801
Chapter 6 The Death of Saint-Domingue: 1801-1803
Chapter 7 We Must Live Free or Die: 1804-1820
Chapter 8 Chaos and Contentment: 1820-1842
Chapter 9 Darkness Descends: 1843-1858
Chapter 10 Black Republic: 1859 - 1870
Chapter 11 Misfortunes without Number: 1871 -1888
Chapter 12 Plots and Revolutions 1888 - 1911
Chapter 13 A Public Nuisance: 1911 - 1915
Chapter 14 Occupation: 1915 - 1934
Chapter 15 Second Independence: 1934 - 1957
Chapter 16 I Am the State: 1957 - 1971
Chapter 17 Riding the Tiger: 1971 - 1986
Chapter 18 Paper and Iron: 1986 - 1995
Chapter 19 Appendices
Chapter 20 Voodoo
Chapter 21 Chronology
Chapter 22 Glossary
Chapter 23 Acknowledgments
Chapter 24 Bibliography
Chapter 25 Source Notes
Chapter 26 Index
Chapter 27 About the Authors
Chapter 28 Illustrations
Chapter 29 Maps
The turbulent history of Haiti is related in a well-researched and highly readable narrative…Praised by all who have read it as the only complete and fully documented history of Haiti in any language, 'Written in Blood' is certain to become a classic.
— (praise for first edition); Proceedings Magazine, the flagship publication of the U.S. Naval Institute, (U.S. Naval Institute)
As spellbinding as Voodoo, 'Written in Blood' is a matchless history of Haiti and the Haitian people.
— William Manchester
The Heinls tell [this] tragic story well.
— (praise for first edition); Footsteps Magazine
There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic.
— (praise for first edition); Washington Star
There is no work in the English language that even approaches the extravagant wealth of information the Heinls have assembled about the world's first black republic.
— (praise for first edition); Washington Star