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You can purchase Dede Mirabal's memoir here to learn more on her perspective re: Haiti and her work : https://www.amazon.com/Vivas-jard%C3%ADn-Spanish-Dede-Mirabal/dp/0307474534
A few weeks ago I was reading The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics and I was surprised how during the times of slavery even people that were considered liberal and progressive were in favor of it as a way of developing the economy. These were the times before the industrial revolution, and economic prosperity meant huge plantations with thousands of slaves.
That is how the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) generated much of the wealth of the French empire and Brazil imported five millions slaves for the same purpose. Today we see that as an evil enterprise, but during those times it was business as usual. They really didn't see the slaves as human beings.
great video, that's something I would like to try one day! I read this book recently, called "Pirate Hunters", blew my mind. It's a real account of a duo of treasure hunter scuba divers searching for lost pirate ships, check it out:
https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Hunters-Treasure-Obsession-Legendary/dp/0812973690
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (by C. L. R. James) EDIT: this book was so good an organization of the "story" of how the slaves of San Domingo freed themselves and established their own, sovereign state while France, the would-be owner of the extremely valuable island so coveted by the rest of Europe's wealthy, was in the midst of its own revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that I couldn't finish it without first reading one of the sources it gave such a delicious taste of (Thomas Clarkson's 138-page "Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade", itself an extremely engaging read). This book will draw you into history.
Not the same time frame your talking about but Porfirio Rubirosa was all over the place at one point as an international Playboy.