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Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American (1st Edition) by Jean-Robert Cadet, Cynthia Nassano Cadet (Foreword) Paperback, 182 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-292-71203-0 / 0292712030 ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71203-4 / 9780292712034 African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society--the children of the poor--by using them as unpaid servants to the weal |