At 12:24 AM 2/26/2007, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
><http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/books/review/Hochschild.t.html>
>February 25, 2007
>The Black Napoleon
>By ADAM HOCHSCHILD
><...>
>"Within Haitian culture," Bell writes, "there are no such
>contradictions, but simply the actions of different spirits which may
>possess one's being under different circumstances and in response to
>vastly different needs. There is no doubt that from time to time
>Toussaint Louverture made room in himself for angry, vengeful spirits,
>as well as the more beneficent" ones. Of such contradictions are great
>figures made; just think of our own Thomas Jefferson — who,
>incidentally, ordered money and muskets sent to his fellow slave
>owners to suppress Toussaint's drive for freedom, saying of it, "Never
>was so deep a tragedy presented to the feelings of man."
My friends, BlackAmazon, often writes about the powerful influence of Haitian (later influenced by Guyanese) culture on her life -- like her latest, "Nigra Sum":
http://guyaneseterror.blogspot.com/2007/02/nigra-sum.html