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Imagining Life on Mars: A Reading List
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Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's A City on Mars discusses what a space colony on that planet might look like. Science fiction authors, though, have been imagining life on the Red Planet for well over a century (some coming closer to reality than others).

The concept of intelligent life on Mars was likely sparked in the late 19th century. Improved telescopes allowed scientists to notice long, straight lines on its surface (first described by Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli in 1877). Some speculated that these channels or canals were engineered by some sort of native creature. Although this notion was debunked in the early 20th century, it triggered the idea that there could be intelligent life on Mars, which over the ensuing de...
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Enemy of the State
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Félix Darfour accused the post-independence Haitian republic with corruption. He lost his life for it.

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Counter-Plantation Nation
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The language and culture of Kreyòl, as well as the Vodou religion, reveal a vision of Haitian sovereignty on behalf of those formerly enslaved.

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Haiti: What Sovereignty?
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After winning independence, the West rushed to teach Haiti a lesson so that their revolutionary experience would not recur on the continent. Haiti suffers the repercussions of such attacks to this day.

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The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti
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For Frederick Douglass, and for Black activists across the United States, there was no place more important to global Black freedom than Haiti. 

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“We Have Dared to Be Free”
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Haiti truly manifested the principles of liberty, but international resistance and racism have worked for 220 years to undermine its sovereignty.

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How Haiti Destroyed Slavery and Led the Way to Freedom throughout the Atlantic World
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Not the United States, Great Britain, France, or any other enslaver deserves credit for ending slavery. Atlantic abolition began with Haiti.

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