Author Archives: The Public Archive

Insularity & Internationalism: An Interview with Kaiama L. Glover

By The Public Archive | Published: June 4, 2013
Kaiama L. Glover is an associate professor of French at Barnard College and the author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon. Published by Liverpool University Press in 2010, Haiti Unbound is the first full-length critical study of the Spiralists: an extraordinary Haitian and Caribbean literary movement whose principle players are writers [...]
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Continental Conference to end the military occupation of Haiti by the United Nations & MINUSTAH

By The Public Archive | Published: May 28, 2013
Delegates from around the world will converge on Port-au-Prince May 31 to take part in a two-day Continental Conference aimed at bringing an end to the United Nations Mission to Stabilize Haiti or MINUSTAH, which marks its ninth anniversary on Jun. 1. The military occupation force, which now comprises about 9,000 armed soldiers and police officers [...]
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Miami Peniel Church of the Nazarene / Eglise du Nazareen Peniel

By The Public Archive | Published: April 28, 2013
Miami Peniel Church of the Nazarene-Eglise du Nazareen Peniel, Reverend Delanot Pierre, Pastor, (December 11, 1945, Ennery, Haiti — April 20, 2013, Miami, Florida). Rest in Peace.
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The Sufferings of Madame Toussaint

By The Public Archive | Published: April 24, 2013
The widow of the unfortunate Toussaint has just landed upon our continent. Her account of her own and her husband’s sufferings, from Bonaparte’s tyranny, would be incredible, were they not already equaled by the Corsican’s former atrocities, and those of his accomplices. Her mutilated limbs and numerous wounds, are, besides, visible proofs of the racks [...]
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The National City Bank of New York & Haiti

By The Public Archive | Published: April 10, 2013
With American influence becoming so strong in Haiti through the United States permanent control and administration of customs, finances, etc., followed, as it naturally would be, by American investment in the island and increased trading between the two countries, it was natural that the National Bank, heretofore almost entirely in Europe, should pass into full [...]
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Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti

By The Public Archive | Published: April 6, 2013
The planters talked over their billiards and their wine, and the longer they played and the more they drank the more they talked. They said things not intended for slave ears. The wine loosened their tongues and blurred their intellects. Christophe listened with amazement and then coolly digested what they said; and within the short tropic [...]
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Jamaica and the Saint-Domingue Slave Revolt, 1791-1793

By The Public Archive | Published: March 17, 2013
When the slaves and free coloureds of Saint Domingue rebelled in the autumn of 17791, Jamaican society faced the greatest challenge of its history. The dramatic spectacle of violent self­liberation was acted out almost before the eyes of its blacks and mulattoes, while the ruling white elite experienced a dilemma that seemed to oppose its [...]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visits Haiti, December 3, 2007

By The Public Archive | Published: March 5, 2013
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013). *video via @dominique_e_ + @djaspora
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