A sprawling tale of the complex and extremely bloody history of the melting pot that was early 17th century Haiti.  It’s a seething brew of the indigenous people of Haiti, slaves brought from Africa to work the sugar plantations, and the various European settlers from Spain, England, and especially France.  And although Haiti was a colony of France at the time, the French were not at all a cohesive group – there were at least three groups of French since this is the period of […]