Tag Archives: Dessalines
A brief account of the rule of Jean Jacques Dessalines
The rule of Dessalines was a sanguinary, but, on the whole, a salutary one. He began his government by a treacherous massacre of nearly all the French who remained in the island trusting to his false promises of protection. All other Europeans, however, except the French, were treated with respect. [...]
Aftershocks + Avengers: An interview with Laurent Dubois
Laurent Dubois is a Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University who is a specialist in the history and culture of France and the Caribbean. His publications include Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804, Soccer [...]
An nou pote kole pou dekole MINUSTAH: Bring the Rage to Kick Out MINUSTAH
Translation of statement from Bri Kouri Nouvèl Gaye announcing July 28, 2011 protest against the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Kreyol original follows.
July 28, 1915 – July 28, 2011. It has been ninety-six years since the U.S. imperial army landed in our country. They occupied us for nineteen years, killed many of our [...]
Posted in Haiti Also tagged 1915, 2004, 2011, archives, Batraville, Charlemagne Peralte, intervention, MINUSTAH, occupation, sovereignty 3 Comments
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 [...]
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
What then? Bent for many ages under an iron yoke; the sport of the passions of men, or their injustice, and of the caprices of fortune; mutilated victims of the cupidity of white Frenchmen; after having fattened with our toils these insatiate blood suckers, with a patience and resignation unexampled, we should again have seen [...]
Haiti: Le Serment des Ancêtres
Lethière Guillaume Guillon, Le Serment des Ancêtres (1822), Museée National d’Haïti, Port-au-Prince, Haïti
Lethière Guillaume Guillon (1760-1832)
Posted in Haiti Also tagged 1804, 1822, art, Haiti, Petion, race, representation, revolution, sovereignty 1 Comment
May 18th: Haitian Flag Day
Historically, students in Haiti learn that on May 18th, 1803, in a congress held at Arachaie, a township located about fifty miles north of Port-au-Prince, Dessalines created the country’s first flag. Ripping apart a French one — blue, white and red, he threw away the white portion that was in the center and asked Catherine [...]
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére