![]() ![]() There is a huge gap between the Haitian workers and the rich Dominicans who they work for. Set in 1937, the story starts out in the rural town of Alegría, which consists of many sugarcane mills and plantations that require the cheap and plentiful labor the Haitians supply. Danticat set out to memorialize the victims and their suffering, by telling their stories and spreading knowledge. It tells the story of an orphaned young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic who gets caught up in the carnage of the Parsley massacre during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.īorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat visited the Dajabón River, across the Haitian border in the Dominican Republic, in 1995 and was surprised to find the people there seemingly unaware of the brutal killings that had taken place there during the Parsley massacre (1937), when tens of thousands of Haitian workers were murdered. Farming of Bones is a work of historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat, published in 1998. ![]()
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