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"It could have easily been called 'Afro-American Fight Song'. My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one. I can't play right unless I'm thinking about prejudice and hate and persecutions, and how unfair it is. There's a sadness and cries in it, but also determination." --Charles Mingus, Haitian Fight Song, The Clown, 1957; Maurice Jackson, Friends of the Negro! Fly with Me... The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. However, this dominant narrative must be critiqued, specifically the notion of-slave…
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