#Jacques I of Haiti

[roehenstart]

Le Serment des Ancêtres. Par Guillaume Guillon-Lethière.

[3rdeyeblaque]

On September 10th we venerate Elevated Ancestor, Voodoo Queen of Louisiana, & Saint, Marie Catherine Laveau on her 222nd birthday 🎉

[for our Hoodoos of the Vodou Pantheon]

Marie Catherine Laveau was a dedicated Hoodoo, healer, herbalist, & midwife who, "traveled the streets [of New Orleans] like she owned them", as the most infamous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Marie C. Laveau I was born a "Free Mulatto" in today's French Quarter in what was then, New France); to a mother & grandmother who were both born into slavery & later freed via freedom papers. It is believed that she grew up in the St. Ann Street cottage of her maternal grandmother.

She married Jacques Santiago-Paris, a "Quadroon" "Free Man of Color", who fled as a refugee from Saint-Domingue, Haiti from the Haitian Revolution in the former French colony . After his passing, she became known as "The Widow Paris". She then worked as a hairdresser catering to White families & later entered a domestic partnership with a French nobleman his death. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by instilling fear in their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. Although she never abandoned her Catholic roots, she became increasingly interested in her mother’s African traditional beliefs. The Widow Paris learned her craft from a ‘Voodoo doctor’ known variously as Doctor John or John Bayou.

Marie C. Laveau I is said to have intiated into Voodoo career sometime in the 1820s. She's believed to be descended from a long line of Voodoo Priestesses, all bearing her same name. She was also a lifelong devout Catholic. It didn’t take long before Marie C. Laveau I dominated New Orleans Voodoo culture & society before claiming title of Queen. She was the 3rd Voodoo Queen of NOLA - after Queen Sanité Dédé & Queen Marie Salopé. During her decades tenure, she was the premier beacon of hope and service to customers seeking private consultations - to aid in matters such as family disputes, health, finances, etc, created/sold gris gris, perforemed exorcisms. While her daughter Marie II was known for her more theatrical displays of public events, Marie C. Laveau I was less flamboyant in her persona. She conducted her work in 3 primary locations throughout the city: her home on St. Ann Street, Congo Square, & at Lake Pontchartrain. Despite one account of a challenge to her authority in 1850, Marie C. Laveau I maintained her leadership & influence.

The Queen died peacefully in her sleep in her ole cottage home on St. Ann Street. Her funeral was conducted according to the rite of the Catholic Church & in the absence of any Voodoo rites. To her Voodoo followers, she's venerated as a Folk Saint. In² addition to her Priesthood in Voodoo and title of Queen, she is also remembered for her community activism; visiting prisoners, providing lessons to women of the community, & doing ritual work for those in need.

She is generally believed to have been buried in plot 347, the Glapion family crypt in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans. As of March 1st, 2015, there is no longer public access to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Entry with a tour guide is required due to continued vandalism & tomb raiding.

We pour libations & give her💐 today as we celebrate her for her love for & service to the people, through poverty, misfortune, bondage, & beyond.

Offering suggestions: flowers + libations at her grave, catholic hymns, holy water, gold rings/bracelets, money

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

[readyforevolution]

On this day, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti, was assassinated in 1806.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the revolution against France, defeating French troops at the Battle of Vertières in November 1803. France then withdrew its remaining 7,000 troops from the island. On January 1st 1804, Dessalines officially declared the former colony's independence as a free African republic, renaming it "Haiti" after its indigenous name. He also freed all slaves making Haiti the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery. Dessalines became the first Emperor of Haiti in October 1804. He was made Emperor for life in 1805, which proved accurate but short-lived as he was assassinated by his political rivals in October 1806.

"..my name has become a horror to all those who want to continue slavery, and depots and tyrants utter it only by cursing the day that I was born."

KEEP EYES ON HAITI!

Stand down Kenya!

Stand up Africa!

Viva the Haitian Masses!

Viva the Haitian Revolution!

Viva the Africa Revolution!

Forward to Pan-Africanism

[twrambling]

do you take requests? (if not feel free to ignore!🙈) how about poland and haiti? they apparently have history together! feel free to see it as romantic❤️ or platonic✨ (if I am not wrong, I think a few haitians today actually have polish ancestry🧐)

Thank you for the request this was super fun to draw!!! :DD and it also taught me something new so thank you for sharing ❤️ ^^

Historical context (copy and pasted from Wikipedia):

"[...] descendants of surviving members of Napoleon's Polish Legionnaires which were forced into combat by Napoleon but later joined the Haitian slaves during the Haitian Revolution. Some 400 to 500 of these Poles are believed to have settled in Haiti after the war. They were given special status as Noir (legally considered to be black, not white despite actual race) and full citizenship under the Haitian constitution by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first ruler of an independent Haiti [...]"

The link to the wiki article:

Slightly less anti french version

[lauren-ashley-howard]

I’ve never had to share personal information on here, but my family is dealing with a crisis, and I’m desperate, so here goes.

My fiancé immigrated to the US from Haiti as a child. His mother made an enormous sacrifice, giving up her *only* child and arranging for family to take him in and raise him. He left at age 9, and they weren’t reunited until he was finally able to travel back to Haiti to visit her in 2022.

After becoming a US citizen just a few years ago, he started the process of filing paperwork to bring her to the US. I don’t need to tell you that our immigration system is deeply broken. I might, however, need to tell you that Haitians in particular have an extremely difficult time getting visas due to a number of reasons. After their president was assassinated in 2021, things became exponentially worse. Gangs took control of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, terrorizing its citizens and displacing thousands.

Just as my fiancé’s mother was finally cleared for an immigration interview, the violence escalated to the point that the US shut down its only embassy in Haiti. No embassy means no interviews. So, we changed course and applied for Form I-134A, AKA “The Biden Program,”a new review process specifically for Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. Basically, it’s a lottery for expedited travel, no interview needed. For months, we waited for an update.

Which brings us to this Tuesday, January 2nd. As we were getting ready for work, we got the call that she had suddenly become violently ill and had been rushed to the hospital. An hour later, she was dead.

We’re traveling to Haiti to bury her next week, but even after tapping into our honeymoon fund, the funeral costs are beyond what we can cover. So, we’re asking for help. A close friend set up a Gofundme for us, you can find the link below. Anything at all that you can contribute will help us greatly.

Thank you.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

New Rule: The War on the West | Real Time with Bill Maher

New Rule: For all the progressives and academics who refer to Israel as an "outpost of Western civilization" like it's a bad thing, please note: Western civilization is what gave the world pretty much every goddamn liberal precept that Liberals are supposed to adore.

Individual liberty, scientific inquiry, rule of law, religious freedom, women's rights, human rights, democracy, trial by jury, freedom of speech. Please somebody, stop us before we Enlighten again.

And since one can find all these concepts in today's Israel and virtually nowhere else in the Middle East, if anything, the world would be a better place if it had more Israels.

Of course, this message falls on deaf ears to the current crop who reduce everything to being only victims or victimizers, so Israel is lumped in as the toxic fruit of the victimizing West. The irony being that all marginalized people live better today because of western ideals, not in spite of them.

Martin Luther King used Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience" to help shape the Civil Rights Movement. The UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights owes its core to Rousseau and Voltaire. Kleisthenes never showed up for a sexual harassment seminar, but without him there's no democracy. The cop who murdered George Floyd got 21 years for violating his Fourth Amendment rights, an idea we got directly from John Locke, who no one in college would ever study anymore because he's so old, and so white, and so dead, and so Western.

Yes, that's how simple the Woke are. It's never about ideas. If it was, would they be cheering on Hamas for their liberation? Liberation? To do what? More freely preside over a country where there are no laws against sexual harassment, spousal rape, domestic violence, homophobia, honor killings or child marriage. This is who liberals think you should stand with? Women there should be so lucky as to get colonized by anybody else.

And for the record, the Jews didn't "colonize" Israel or anywhere ever, except maybe Boca Raton. Gaza wasn't seized by Israel like India or Kenya was by the British Empire. And the partitioning of the region wasn't decided by Jews, but by a vote of the United Nations in 1947 with everyone from Russia to Haiti voting for it. But apparently, they don't teach this at Drag Queen Story Hour anymore.

Now it is true that for too long we didn't study enough Asian or African or Latin American history. But part of the reason for that is, frankly, there's not as much to study. Colleges replaced courses in Western Civ -- boo! Eyeroll! Dead white men, am I right? -- they replace that with World Civilization classes, which is fine in theory, but what it meant in practice is you read queer poetry of the African diaspora instead of Shakespeare. And I'm sure there's value in both, but as usual, America only ever overcorrects.

And so, we're at this place now where the words "western civ" became kind of a shorthand for "white people ruined everything." But they didn't ruin everything. No, they didn't live up to their own ideals for far too long and committed atrocities. But people back then were all atrocious, not just the white ones depending on who had the power.

But it was the western Enlightenment that gave rise to the notion that the law of the jungle should be curbed. Henry David Thoreau. John Stewart Mill. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Three-named dudes. It was all about three-named dudes. Three-named dudes like that were the OG social justice warriors. The ideas that came through Athens, Rome, London, Paris, and yes Philadelphia, are what make life good for most people in free societies today. That the individuals have value, and even the powers that be must submit to the rule of law. That punishment should not be cruel and unusual. That accused people get a trial. That there is such a thing as a war crime.

Why is it that every other culture gets a pass, but the West is exclusively the sum of the worst things it's ever done? You think only white people colonized? Historians estimate that the very non-western Mr Genghis Khan killed 40 million people, and that was in the 13th century. He single-handedly may have reduced the world's population by 11%. On the other hand, he kind of made up for it, because he was such a prolific colonizer of vaginas that today an estimated 16 million people are his direct descendants.

So, stop saying "western civilization" like it's a contradiction in terms. It's not. You're thinking of "moderate Republican."

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The people who snarl "western civilization" went to elite universities with air conditioning where they used their MacBook Pros and iPhones on extensive Wi-Fi networks.

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

With two days left to submit nominees, here is where the list stands:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

[samueldays]

Marcus Ryder: Ignorant moron or hoping for genocide?

The Little Mermaid [ed: 2023] has been criticized by a prominent media diversity advocate for failing to acknowledge the horrors of slavery in the Caribbean. Marcus Ryder, an influential British campaigner who also chairs the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, celebrated the casting of Halle Bailey but took issue with the film’s glossy depiction of racial harmony.

wait for it...

He said that Disney could have set the film in Haiti after it had overthrown the shackles of slavery, with Ariel meeting her prince against the backdrop of burgeoning racial harmony.

extraordinary

For those not up on the history of Haiti, after it had overthrown the shackles of slavery it committed genocide. Literal, kill-the-children-for-having-the-wrong-skin-color genocide. Mass rape was involved too. Jean-Jacques Dessalines might have earned himself a special place in Hell by proclaiming a truce after the first round of slaughter wherein the surviving whites could come out of hiding and get amnesty, but this was a ruse to set up a second round of slaughter on anyone who came out.

This is not what a normal person would call "burgeoning racial harmony".

Do you think mister you-should-acknowledge-the-horrors is failing to acknowledge the nextdoor horrors because he has shit for brains, or because he knows and thinks it was good actually?

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Marcus Ryder continues being a disgrace in his blog post:

Haiti was the first Caribbean country to throw off the shackles of slavery and most importantly in its constitution of 1805 explicitly denounces the idea of different “races” proclaiming true equality.

That is a lie.

The Haitian Constitution of 1805 can be read on Wikisource. It does not use explicitly use the word "races" at all. It does, however, engage in explicit racial inequality in Article Twelve, which I quote here:

No whiteman of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein.

I checked the original French just in case there was something funky about the translation: "Aucun blanc, quelle que soit sa nation…"

This guy is deeply incompetent at a topic he's paid to do and has been doing for a long time. He's intensely focused on race race race, and he gets easily checkable things wrong. He's so thoroughly wrong he starts to be an anthropological case study: what are the revealed preferences of a system which employs this guy?

[banalityofambiguity]

Something that generally pisses me off as a history nerd is when people try to use history as the basis for a political analogy with no actual understanding of the situation which they’re referring to.

The Haitian Revolution, which I know just enough about to call bullshit on the popular version of the story, is a great example. Haiti is arguably the one successful slave revolt in recorded history, yes, but it is also a lot of other things. And Haitian history after the revolution demonstrates a lot of the actual complexity of the revolution, and the questions which it left unsolved. But I think a lot of people’s knowledge of Haiti ends when the presence of most of the white people on the island did, since that genocide is typically presented as the “end” of the story of the Haitian Revolution.

And while I’m not going to take the full time to write out an essay on this topic since I don’t actually know all that much, I can certainly say that both the Haitian Revolution itself, and the consequences inherited by the people it freed, were and are intricate things. Haiti is the story of the slaves of the most brutal extractive system in human history rising up. But it is also the story of the mixed-race elite which used the army to force freed people back to work, and then the story of the final end of the plantations after that attempted return ended in more rebellion. It is the story of foreign interference on behalf of various sides of the conflict, of failed invasions, and of unjust “indemnities” for the crime of becoming free. But above all, it is the story of the people who rose to freedom under a despotic soon-to-be Emperor, and how Haitian society continued to exist after the camera cut away. And I think that part is something ignored in most coverage. I doubt most people know who Jean-Jacques Dessalines was, despite his being the final victor of the conflict, and the first of many, many Haitian leaders to be removed by the same violence that put him there. I doubt most people who reference Haiti as an example of a revolution know much at all about Haitian history beyond the part where revolution happened. I don’t know that much either.

But I think people should look more in-depth at historical analogies, since they tend to be both more useful for actually comparing to anything, and also far more interesting in themselves.

[armoricaroyalty]

And the award for best supporting character goes to….

Supporting characters don’t get enough love! Share a screenshot of your favorite character(s) that you feel don’t get the amount of screen time they truest deserve.

two answers here, and they're both characters who showed up in the most recent posts for that reason!

Theo

Theo has a big role to play in the story, and I needed to build back up to that after she spent almost an entire year on the bench. (in 2022, she made 0 canon appearances between January 6th and December 2nd). Chapter 2 Part 3 was originally meant to last much longer, but I made a decision to condense a lot of plot points because I was losing steam. She was meant to have a much larger role and a plot of her own concerning that line cook of hers and her job -- in the original sequence of events, he basically moved into her apartment and took over a lot of her domestic labor, enabling her to focus on her career and find a lot of fulfillment in it. The subplot with her filing a lawsuit against an agency of the Armorican government was meant to have a much larger presence, with her poised on the brink of success before Roz throws the fatal dart. I was reading about FEMA's failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I was reading about the UN's role in Haiti's cholera epidemic...theo was supposed to have an entire legal thriller happening in the background. and the scandal was supposed to be about roz essentially unsealing some court documents concerning rob's history of cocaine use, at which point he ghosted out of shame, theo was professionally discredited, and her entire life fell apart...i am sorry i just had to cut back somewhere, and that was the part i cut. it was going to be so much work to do it right, sorry for the abruptness of that plot......i did poor theo so dirty, especially given that she's moving up to Series Regular...........the good news is that in penance for cutting theo's erin brokovich moment, i am revising chapter 3 so she can be there....her plot was originally on hold until chapter 4.

EDIT: gdi i got cholera and typhoid mixed up...i literally always do this. not a joke, i cannot keep those two diseases separate inside my head.

Elise

enjoy this cut sequence of elise lighting a candle at this shrine...

I was talking to n. about my excitement for this scene because it finally made two things explicit: 1. Elise is religious and 2. Elise is spying on her children. The religiosity has not come up before I couldn't figure out how explicitly Catholic I wanted to get, and I've been watching the Sopranos and i finally decided that I wanted to get pretty explicitly Catholic. (Carmela Soprano and Elise Sutton are the same character. In this essay, I will--)

Anyway, Elise has also been intended to be a bit scheme-y! Claudia was introduced as a silent eavesdropper and in her third appearance, Elise is offering her a promotion in exchange for information about what's going on inside Jacques and Vivi's marriage (that's why she pushed him to go to therapy!) I've been laying those bread crumbs for a while! I've always tried to write my story in a way that makes it fun to reread, and I hope Claudia is one of those things!

[scribblesartcollective]

"When I was crawling on the floor, my mother gave me paper and pencil to play with. It kept me quiet while she did her errands. At six years old I started painting. A lady my mother sewed for gave me a set of watercolors. By that time, I could draw very well."

Born, James Richmond Barthé in Bay St. Louis Mississippi, he showed an interest and aptitude for the arts early. Encouraged by his mother, family friends and educators, he continued his interest throughout his youth, exhibiting his work at the Bay St. Louis County Fair at just twelve years old. He would unfortunately not stay in school, at the age of fourteen after a bout of typhoid fever, he withdrew from school, and when he was well again went to work instead. The domestic work was as a houseboy for a wealthy family in New Orleans, Louisiana. While it cannot be ignored where he stood at this point in society, his move to New Orleans broadened his culture and allowed him more opportunity to see and understand art. He was introduced to a journalist for a local paper, Lyle Saxon, who tried unsuccessfully to get Richmond into a local art school. Racism, made this an uphill battle. But all the while, in his free time, he was still drawing. In 1924, he donated an oil painting to a Catholic church to be auctioned at a fundraiser. So impressed by his skill, Father Harry F Kane of the Josephites raised money for Richmond to study art. And with not even a high school education, Richmond applied to schools of fine art, and was accepted to the Art Institute of Chicago. While he is known now as a sculptor, he was largely studying painting in Chicago, and was a very talented portrait artist. He caught the attention of prominent patrons and received many handsome commissions from Chicago's black elite. But taking an anatomy class with artist Charles Schroeder changed everything. A shift in his interest and career. Richmond had discovered his passion and turned his attentions to sculpture. After graduating, he would move to New York City, exposing him the Harlem Renaissance at it's peak. Despite the Great Depression, this was still a vibrant time for black artists. The 1930's were some of Richmond's most prolific years.

He had a studio in Harlem briefly, but moved to the more convenient Greenwich Village, allowing him better access to dealers and collectors. During this time, he could not initially afford to pay models, so he sought his inspiration in the world. Actors, dancers, and other artists. In 1933 his work was inaugurated at the Rockefeller center and exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair. The next year, he went abroad, to France with a friend of Harry F Kane. Richmond would not be exposed to classical art and the black performers in France, even making portraits of Josephine Baker. He would return to New York, and continue making incredible pieces. He depicted his black subjects with striking realism and incredible poise. His skill garnered him many commissions and even more praise. In 1939 he had his largest exhibition. 18 bronze sculptures. This success would lead him to win the Guggenheim Fellowship, not once, but twice. In 1940 and 1941. But with the 40's began World War II. His work now, was part of war propaganda, the US Office of War Information made a film of Richmond's work. It was shown both in the US and overseas and even received a prize for his inclusion in the Artists for Victory Exhibition. He was however, not so foolish that he took all this attention at face value. He knew this was the US's response to the Germans racist efforts abroad. In 1947 he traveled to Haiti. He created massive sculptures of revolutionary leaders Toussaint Louverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. He also designed a new coins for Haiti. Richmond would grow tired of New York and the tension in the city. He would move to Jamaica and remain there until the 1960's when violence, and the Civil Rights Movement in the US led him back again. He received much attention. His work, once again at the forefront as the Civil Rights Movement continued. He was awarded the key to the city in his home town and a large reception was given to him in New Orleans. But it was too much, and Richmond, seeking less crowds, traveled Europe for the next five years. Richmond never married, as he was a gay man. He did have romantic relationships but all were sadly short-lived. Tragic as his letters indicate he greatly desired a long term relationship, a "friend and lover." In 1977, he returned to the US, settling in Pasadena California and began working on his memoirs. He was now impoverished and age had taken it's toll on his body. He did not qualify for social security as he had always been an artist and never had a salaried job. The irony, as outside the social security building in Washington, is a sculpture, by Richmond... His work was still exhibited, but only occasionally and he was not earning enough to survive. He did find respite. He befriends the actor James Garner, and Garner would come to his rescue, paying his rent and medical bulls and copyrighting Richmond's work, hiring a biographer to organize and document his work and establishing the Richmond Barthé Trust. It is thought that a bust of Garner was Richmond's last sculpture. Richmond Barthé would die, after years of illness March of 1989. He was eighty-eight. Richmond's work is powerful and not only in the strong sinewy bodies of his full sculptures. His busts are personal and endowed with life, feeling so real and alive that they seem they might just breathe at any moment. If you would like to learn more about his work and life: Richmond Barthe Harlem Renaissance Sculptor Richmond Barthe American Sculptor -Britannica Richmond Barthe Biography - Encylopedia.comRichmond Barthe: A Distinguished American SculptorJames Richmond Barthe in Harlem

[uninterruptedafricans]

Toussaint was a revolutionary who was more focused on abolishing slavery and rightfully so.. but he was more agreeable and believed that Haiti could exist as a French colony.

But it was Dessalines who had a deeper understanding…

It was Dessalines who knew that the Colonizer was not interested in the “existence” of Africans people… only their exploitation.

It was Dessalines who had a broader vision of independence for Haiti.

And it was him who ensured & declared Haiti to be a free Black nation.

EMPEROR JACQUES I. September 20, 1758 - October 17, 1806

[mousathe14]

Okay there is this one joke in Big Wolf on Campus’s voodoo episode I like

Tommy: “Leave Merton alone or I’ll kick your butt back to Hades”

Nurse St. Jacques: “Ti! Haiti!”

[thekimspoblog]

Fuck yeah, Toussaint Louverture was a true badass, someone worth admiring/emulating.

(Actually that's a picture of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first emperor of Haiti after Louverture died)

I know what I said.

[jubaunetwork]

Née un 20 Decembre à Fermathe, Haiti, Kerlyne Liberus est la fille cadette du Pasteur Vragné et de Mme Marlène Liberus. Elle a découvert sa passion pour la musique dès son plus jeune âge et a debuté à l’Eglise Evangelique des Coeurs Unis que dirige son père à Fort Jacques. Après avoir laissé son pays natal pour aller vivre aux Etats Unis, Kerlyne Liberus a eu l’opportunité d’être l’une des principales chanteuses d’une grande chorale à Brooklyn, NY, et quelques années plutard, elle a integrée la Troupe Paul El Sadate. Avec son incroyable talent elle est devenue cette poetesse qui déclame et cette unique voix melodieuse qui chante pour Dieu, pour le drapeau et pour la Culture. Elle est une compositrice, une Cantatrice et une adoratrice née. Elle vient juste de debuter sa carriere musicale comme artiste solo. Son nouveau album « Who am I » contient cinq morceaux en Anglais, quatre en Creole et un morceau en Francais. Soyez benis par sa voix et son ministère. #gospel #music #worship #praise #news #musique #évangélique #actualités #bgospelmagazine #bgospel

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🇭🇹🩸• @pascalebelony 👑 This photo deserves a space of its own on my timeline. Haitians and allies united under our flag, fueled by our motto “L’Union Fait La Force”, dedicated to sharing Haiti’s history and reshaping her narrative. But most importantly, we are a diaspora committed to the rebuilding and advancement of her motherland!‼️ We are descendants of the revered Toussaint L’ouverture, the unstoppable Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Dahomey warrior, Aunt Toya, the brave Sanité Belair, the powerful Cecile Fatima, the revered Dutty Boukman, the fearless Makandal, and the mighty queen Anacaona!‼️ Their blood still courses through our veins. Their courage, résilience, and strength become our generational inheritance. These attributes move us forward through modern day trials , foreign intervention, governmental corruption, and socio-political complexities. As long as I live, I will never stop fighting and advocating for Haiti. My ancestors abolished slavery, defeated three world powers, and helped liberate several countries in Latin America! Haiti redefined liberty and established a standard for universal human rights as the world’s first, free Black Republic. This is why I strongly believe and proudly say this “Haiti is planted, not buried. HAITI IS RISING. ✊🏾” • Thank you @noulaworldwide for being a bridge that connects the Haitian diaspora‼️ #AyitiWasBornInMe (at Little Haiti Cultural Complex) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4bJTNupw4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=