item: #1 of 5
          id: 35025
      author: Johnson, James Weldon
       title: Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
        date: None
       words: 17908
      flesch: 53
     summary: Haitian Government bonds have long been the recognized substantial investment for the well-to-do and middle class people, considered as are in this country, United States, state, and municipal bonds. But Haiti for over one hundred years scrupulously paid its external and internal debt--a fact worth remembering when one hears of anarchy and disorder in that land--until five years ago when under the financial guardianship of the United States interest on both the internal and, with one exception, external debt was defaulted; and this in spite of the fact that specified revenues were pledged for the payment of this interest.
    keywords: adviser; american; article; bank; city; convention; country; finance; government; haiti; haitian; national; new; occupation; people; port; president; prince; republic; shall; united states
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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 38764
      author: Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
       title: A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti
        date: None
       words: 133300
      flesch: 84
     summary: But there is no doubt that the _Orpheus'_ men have had all the luck, and the big ships' turn won't come till we have war with France. Me had a little pickanniny and could 'teal away widout being noticed, and me went dere seberal times; den oberseer killed by anoder slabe, and de master, who was good man, he come out to enquire about it.
    keywords: better; blacks; board; brigantine; captain; come; course; crew; dat; day; deck; dey; dinah; doctor; doubt; duchesne; fight; fire; french; frigate; glover; good; guns; half; hands; hope; house; island; know; lieutenant; look; madame; man; men; monsieur; myra; nat; negroes; news; pirates; place; round; schooner; ship; sir; tell; thought; time; town; turnbull; war; water; way; white; work
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 44974
      author: H. L. L.
       title: A short account of the extraordinary life and travels of H. L. L.---- native of St. Domingo, now a prisoner of war at Ashbourn, in Derbyshire, shewing the remarkable steps of Divine providence towards him, and the means of his conversion to God
        date: None
       words: 16609
      flesch: 70
     summary: I hasted to see my acquaintances; and having inquired after my Brothers, I heard that they were taken prisoners, and conducted to _Plymouth_ in great _ One day as I was reading the news-paper, I heard that _St. Domingo_ was in a state of tranquillity; at this I was determined to go thither: accordingly, I went on board a Ship that was going there; we went first to _St. Thomas_, to take some passengers, and for my dear Country we sailed, and arrived safe there.
    keywords: days; father; god; life; mother; night; place; sea; ship; state; thee; thou; time; town
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 47511
      author: Kuser, John Dryden
       title: Haiti: Its dawn of progress after years in a night of revolution
        date: None
       words: 15561
      flesch: 70
     summary: While the winter is for Port-au-Prince and southern Haiti the dry season, the conditions are exactly reversed in the northern half of the republic. In Port-au-Prince and all of southern Haiti we were in the middle of the dry season, as I have said.
    keywords: american; cacos; country; day; french; good; government; haiti; haitian; illustration; men; natives; new; port; president; prince; road; time; toussaint; town; white; work
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 59533
      author: Sansay, Leonora
       title: Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo In a Series of Letters, Written by a Lady at Cape Francois, to Colonel Burr, Late Vice-President of the United States, Principally During the Command of General Rochambeu
        date: None
       words: 35172
      flesch: 72
     summary: Madame St. Louis, was the reply. So she is, replied St. Louis, but her husband is a Frenchman.
    keywords: cape; clara; country; day; days; dear; fate; french; friend; general; heart; house; husband; jago; know; lady; letter; louis; madame; man; moment; negroes; people; place; sister; thought; time; town; vessel
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