Black Haiti: A Biography of Africa's Eldest Daughter

by Blair Niles, Robert Niles (Illustrator)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1926

About the author

Blair Niles is a pen name of Mary Blair Rice. She also wrote under the name Mary Blair Beebe.

Reviews

[Ketura · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting way to learn about Haiti’s early history. This book has further fueled my interest in diving deeper. The language was a big offensive at times but I do understand that this was originally written during a different time

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Author travels thru Haiti in 1925 at time Marine occupation. She studies all she can find in the only book store in the country. First part of book was a bit of a bore as all she did was talk about all she was seeing in a not very clear way, in my thinking. But then she started to get a feel for the history of the country and she did an excellent job of telling the history of Dessalines, Mackandal, and Toussaint, "It is only in travel, I think , that history comes thus sensuously alive, that it appears with the reality of personal memory. You set forth with your mind stored with history and with contemporary opinion. but from the first moment of entering the harbor the history begins to appear as memory , its characters as ancestors, and contemporary opinion as gossip, while the country itself becomes a living personality" That was when the author took off to make this a very interesting book.