Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American - An Autobiography - Jean-Robert Cadet - 2000 The University of Texas Press Paperback epidemic Signed and dedicated by author

Signed and dedicated by author

Light crease on front board

The last thing he wanted was to become a coldblooded avenger

One small area of cloth missing on side of spine where it meets the board

Janet is from Whileaway

Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American - An Autobiography - Jean-Robert Cadet - 2000 The University of Texas Press Paperback epidemic Signed and dedicated by authorCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: 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 societythe children of the poorby using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children wereand still arerestavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of