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Alexandre Pétion, c.1816 🌴🇭🇹#haiti #haitian #haitianhistory #haitien

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🌴🇭🇹⚔️#haiti #Ayiti

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AYITI - La Perle Des Antilles 

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In Haitian Creole we don’t say “You’re immature” we say “Ou pa gen nanm” which translates to “You have no soul” and this connects to me on a spiritual level.

Submitted by @mashliie

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Jean Claude Castera

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Haitian General, Haiti c.1870

General Obas, General Hyppolite

General Saint-Lucien, General Montas

General Lorquet, General Chevalier

General Illion, General Joubert

General Leconte

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Haitian Architecture 🇭🇹🏘 (2018)

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Were you ever a pirate?

No, don’t be silly! 

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Do you go to The Citadelle much?

Not particularly! There's no real reason for me to go, and it's more of a tourist attraction. It's beautiful--imposing, even--and very rich in history, but it's a long, long hike and I'm getting too old for that kind of thing. :p

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Today in Haitian History - October 22, 1801 - Beginning of Moïse rebellion against Toussaint Louverture

In late October 1801, former slaves in Northern plantations led an uprising against Toussaint Louverture’s strict work code. While Jeremy D. Popkin (2011) notes that “several hundred whites” were killed in this process, Carolyn Fick (1990) estimates the number to be around three hundred. The rebellion, believed to have been led by Toussaint adopted nephew, regional military commander Moïse, was crushed on Louverture’s orders. Accused, in the words of Fick (1990), of “inciting and propagating a revolt against” Louverture, Moïse and his believed co-conspirators were executed in November 1801.

Given the hasty nature in which all the proceedings around the Moïse rebellion occurred, the precise motives for revolting against Louverture are unclear. Many historians (as those mentioned above) have suggested that the rebellion was the result of growing resentment towards the black leader. Indeed, despite his many accomplishments, notably the elaboration of a Constitution in February 1801, Louverture had managed to alienate himself from the very individuals his leadership had attempted to defend. His insistence on relating freedom to agricultural production put him at odds with the nouveaux libres who shared a different perspective on what life after slavery ought to look like. In many ways, men like Moïse, who understood the former slaves’ desire for small land ownership, better represented the aspiration of the newly freed than Louverture. Toussaint’s concern with the economy (and it would seem both the protection of white lives and property) were incompatible with the vision of freedom many cherished. 

Occurring only a few months before the Saint-Domingue expedition, the military campaign sent by Napoleon Bonaparte and headed by his brother-in-law Emmanuel Leclerc to reconquer the island and restore slavery, the Moïse rebellion revealed some of the serious fissures in Toussaint’s command.

Image: Portrait of Toussaint L'Ouverture by Girardin. Courtesy of: Wikimedia Commons.

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BIENVENIDOS A LA NUEVA R E L I G I Ó N; “i spend in the club what you have in the bank; this is the new religion, bang, en latino gang, gang, yeh.”

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Citadelle Laferrière, Haiti

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Fille au bracelet, 1977 by  Émilcar Simil (Haiti)

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Today in Haitian History - October 18, 1850 – Birth of Anténor Firmin

Born in Cap-Haïtien, Anténor Firmin was one of Haiti’s most important and influential political leaders and intellectuals in the second half of the nineteenth century. While in Haiti he is still very much remembered as a politician who once served as a minister of finance and of foreign affairs, in recent years, Firmin’s legacy has come to be closely associated with his ideas about racial equality. Indeed, in 1885, Firmin published De l'égalité des races humaines (On the Equality of Human Races), a rebuttal of Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races) first published in 1855, where, espousing scientific racism, Joseph Arthur de Gobineau tried to differentiate and classify “human races.”

Anténor Firmin’s De l'égalité enjoyed little success in France where it was first published in 1885, nor did it seem to stir too much debate among Haitian intellectuals at the time. Firmin’s work was only rediscovered in the twentieth century when scientists across the globe began to understand race as a social construct rather than a fixed biological category, thus making Firmin a pioneer in that discovery. 

Image Courtesy of: CIDIHCA Collections.

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