Harvey Neptune, author of Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation, offered some background on Haiti for the arts blog at Temple University (where he is an assistant professor of history). I wanted to share some of his comments on the country's history as well as his challenge for lovers of freedom to help Haiti rebuild--not just past the present moment of acute crisis, but to the point that it can thrive.--ellen ...despite lectures that laud the creation of Haiti in 1804 as the most inspiring and daring democratic movement in the...