This text delves into the reformation of Haiti from 1874-1950 with a focus on African American women. Byrd explores how Black women used the African diaspora as a resource in the struggle for racial and gender equality and the conflict between elite and middle-class Black women abroad and Haitian women during Haiti’s reconstruction period. The essay draws attention to important questions in Black intellectual history by examining evolutions in the relationship between elite and middle-class Black women and Haitians from Reconstruction through the mid-twentieth century.