Solon Louis-Jean

Solon Louis-Jean recalls his abduction into slavery in the Dominican sugar industry:

"Five Dominican soldiers arrested me and my brother in Haiti. We walked for hours to Limon, where there was a depot with more than 50 Haitians waiting. The soldiers guarded us so that no one would leave. Then they took us by bus to two different bateyes. When we arrived some soldiers gave us machetes and told us to start cutting."

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