1938: (Woodson Marvels at Comhaire-Sylvain — Woodson Marveling That “Working in the Same Field in Which Dr.

1938: (Woodson Marvels at Comhaire-Sylvain — Woodson Marveling That “Working in the Same Field in Which Dr. Herskovits Has Chosen to Labor Has Recently Appeared Madame Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain,” Counting Her Among “the Most Intellectual People of Haiti,” Particularly Taken with Her Unique Documentation of How Folktales and Kreyòl Language Are Recited by the People Themselves How They Are Extended or Widely Known Among the Haitian People and the Means by Which They Have Reached Other Parts): Woodson marveled that working in the same field in which Herskovits had chosen to labor, there had recently appeared Madame Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain. Counting her among the most intellectual people of Haiti, Woodson was particularly taken with what he identified as her unique documentation choices — how folktales and Kreyòl language are recited by the people themselves, how they are extended or widely known among the Haitian people, and the means by which they have reached other parts. The endorsement from the dean of African American historical scholarship — the founder of Negro History Week — placed Comhaire-Sylvain in a transnational intellectual genealogy that connected Black scholarship across the Americas.