You needed your ancestors there with you. The story in the family was that this was not a battle you could fight alone. It was understood that you had to have special gifts to be part of the Caco rebellion, because you were mostly rural people fighting a world power that was occupying your country. I think there was a lot of mythology about men like my grandfather. In these stories, we were told that he knew all of the secrets of the night. We have always heard mystical stories about my grandfather, who fought against the United States occupation of Haiti between 19. And within the family, I’m sure there was Vodou, at least on my father’s side. Their first migration was from that small rural village to the city of Port-au-Prince. My family is originally from a very small village in the mountains of Léogâne called Beauséjour (it literally means, nice stay).
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