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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Arcahaie, Haiti, 18 May 1803
He it was who tore the white band from the French tricolor flag as a visible symbol of the extinction of white power.
Earl Leslie Griggs and Clifford H. Prator, Eds. Henry Christophe and Thomas Clarkson: A Correspondence (1952)
The widely held belief was that on 18 May 1803 at Arachie Dessalines had torn the white band [...]
To Toussaint L’Ouverture
Toussaint, the most unhappy of men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head be now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon’s earless den; -
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
Wilt thou find patience? Yet die not; do thou
Wear rather in thy bonds a cheerful brow:
Though fallen thyself, never to rise again,
Live, and take comfort. [...]
Haiti: Americas
Advantage may, indeed, be taken of their present ignorance; glittering and permanent rewards may be promised to their valour; they may be inspired with contemptuous notions of the blacks whom they are going to subdue; and it may not be till successive armies, the flowers of the French chivalry, are swallowed up and lost without [...]
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Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére