Haiti: May 18, Flag Day!
"It is the day when the Haitians of that time, all aligned behind a common goal, made the decision to free themselves forever from the chains of slavery, to break the bonds of servitude, to shake off the yoke of enslavement, to free themselves, to emancipate themselves from French tutelage and to give themselves a country." - Mounddy D.Sanon
Find our selection of tribute books in store or online to the world's first free black republic.
More than 100 titles and their links
Books for adults
Black Jacobins Toussaint Louverture and the Revolution of Saint-Domingue
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The hundred-colored woman By Lorrie Jean-Louis
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AYITI - Roxane Gay
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A Brief History of Black Communities in Canada by Frantz Voltaire
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Hadriana in all my dreams Novel by René Depestre
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Haitian Voodoo by Alfred Métraud
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Governors of the Dew [pocket format] Jacques Roumain
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Plidetwal by Evelyne Trouillot (Creole)
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The end of the world is a window Book by Emmelie Prophet
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Hallelujah for a garden woman Book by René Depestre
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All Saints' Day
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A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec by Sean Mills
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I am the daughter of the burnt baobab Book by Rodney Saint-Éloi
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Love, anger and madness By Marie Vieux-chauvet
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THE BLACK BODY by Jean-Claude Charles
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Plidetwal by Evelyne Trouillot (Creole)
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The Legendary Life of Toussaint
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Freedom #330 From Collective
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Haitian Voodoo: An Introduction to the Spiritual Traditions of Haiti by Mambo Chita Tann
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Haitian Vodou Flags By Patrick Arthur Polk
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History of Haiti The first black republic of the New World by Catherine Eve Roupert
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THE NATIVE ARMY Napoleon's defeat in Haiti
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A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple
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Purpose An Immigrant's Story by Wyclef Jean
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EVERYTHING YOU WON'T BE TOLD, MONGO by Dany Laferrière
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When it's sad Bertha sings By Rodney Saint-Éloi
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Tim Tim - Kont poplin nan ang ayisien
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MALICIOUZ Book Contemporary Afro Urban Art
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Creole Cuisine by Vanessa Bolosier
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History of Haiti Volume 1
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SONGS OF THE MOUNTAIN, THE PLAIN AND THE SEA
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Eros in a Chinese Train Book by René Depestre
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THREE STUDIES ON THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF HAITI (1915-1934)
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Painter of feeling by Jonas profile
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Bizango I: In Principio
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CHRONICLES OF A REAL HAITIAN LEADER by Gary Victor
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Haitian Voodoo
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The Haitians: A Decolonial History by Jean Casimir
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God Loves Haiti A Novel By Dimitry Elias Léger
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Anthology of Contemporary Haitian Poetry: 73 Poets
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The Blind Man with a Thousand Destinies by Joe Jack
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Compère General Soleil By Jacques-Stephen Alexis
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This Quebec that lives in me by Dominique Anglade
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Mr. Toussaint By Edouard Glissant
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How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired Novel by Dany Laferrière
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Land of Women: 150 Years of Female Poetry in Haiti
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Duvalier The Hidden Face of Papa Doc
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VODOU
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A decolonial reading of Haitian history Jean Casimir
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The bewitched mountain by Jacques Roumain
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Nan Domi, the story of an initiation
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Women of the Scorched Lands by AGNANT, MARIE-CÉLIE
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The Whites of Memory - Georges Anglade
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Negro Funds By Marie Vieux-Chauvet
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History of Haitian musical style
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Dessalines
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Let Madness Run by Gerda Cadostin
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On the equality of human races positive anthropology
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Night of the Full Coves by Franz Benjamin
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Fado by Kettly Mars
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Tpussaint Louverture, the black Spartacus
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The Return By Dany LaFerrière and David Homel
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Medicinal plants of Haiti by Marilise Neptune Rouzier
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Books / Children's and young adult literature
The History of Haiti told to children by Mimi Barthélémy
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The Adventures of Nanou and Ti Ko – Avanti Nanou ak Ti Ko
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Joujou Turenne tells Mandela's story
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Célimène: Fairy Tale for Immigrant Daughter Book by Edwidge Danticat
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Dany Laferrière's Day of the Dead
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Joujou Tales The Wind of Friendship
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The Chestnuts
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