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The National City Bank of New York & Haiti
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 [...]
Marie-Louise Christophe, Queen of Haiti
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
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 [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez visits Haiti, December 3, 2007
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013).
*video via @dominique_e_ + @djaspora
The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics
If any good reason exists why we should persevere longer in withholding our recognition of the independence and sovereignty of Haiti and Liberia, I am unable to discern it. Unwilling, however, to inaugurate a novel policy in regard to them without the approbation of Congress, I submit to your consideration the expediency of an appropriation [...]
Haiti: Cartography After the Quake
OpenStreetMap – Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography).
Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red [...]
Radical Black Reading/Reading Haiti, 2012
Easily the most hyped Haiti-related book to come out in the past year was Purpose: An Immigrant Story (It Books), the memoir of rapper-turned-presidential-candidate Wyclef Jean. They say Purpose is actually not that bad, especially if you’re interested in either Clef’s take on the dissolution of the Fugees or his embittered account of [...]
The Sufferings of Madame Toussaint