Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois

This book covers Haitian history after the Haitian Revolution. It shows how after the Revolution, the people in power sought to recreate certain types of colonial structures (mainly separating those with wealth and power from those without it). I found the book vastly informative, but also quite entertaining. It offered a mixture of information and covered both the leaders and the ordinary people of Haiti. Well worth the read, especially since the subject is so important to US history but also so neglected in the US.