Jacques Roumain: Voice of the Haitian People

Jacques Jean-Baptiste Roumain was born on 4 June 1907 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, into an old and affluent family whose social standing placed him near the center of the country s political and cultural establishment. His maternal grandfather, Tancrède Auguste, had served as president of Haiti from 1912 to 1913, and Roumain s early life unfolded within a [ ] The post Jacques Roumain: Voice of the…