Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across And About Hayti
Where Black Rules White: A Journey Across And About Hayti, är en bok från år 1900 skriven av Hesketh Prichard (1876-1922) som anlände till Haiti 1899 för att rapportera om förhållandena för tidningen Daily Express. Haiti, som var den första självständiga nationen i latinamerika och sedan 1804 styrd av ättlingar till afrikanska slavar, hade stora naturtillgångar och en historia av ett lyckat uppror som ledde till självständighet. Prichard gjorde på plats sina observationer som låg till grund för sin bok.
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| “ | Can the negro rule himself? The present condition of Hayti gives the best possible answer to the question, and, considering the experiment has lasted for a century, perhaps also a conclusive one. For a century the answer has been working itself out there in flesh and blood. The negro has had his chance, a fair field and no favour. He has had the most fertile and beautiful of the Carribbees for his own; he has had the advantage of excellent French laws ; he inherited a made country, with Cap Haytien for its Paris, "Little Paris/' as it was called. Here was a wide land sown with prosperity, a land of wood, water, towns, and plantations, and in the midst of it the Black Man was turned loose to work out his own salvation. What has he made of the chances that were given to him ? | ” |
| “ | To-day in Hayti we come to the real crux of the question. At the end of a hundred years of trial, how does the black man govern himself? What progress has he made? Absolutely none. | ” |
