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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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Archives and Anti-Colonialism: An interview with Hans R. Schmidt

By The Public Archive | Published: August 31, 2012
HANS R. SCHMIDT is a historian and the author of the classic account of the first United States military intervention and administration of Haiti, The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 (1971) as well as of Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History (1998), a biography of the legendary [...]
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La vérité sur la répression anticommuniste de 1969

By The Public Archive | Published: November 17, 2011
“La vérité sur la répression anticommuniste de 1969,” Boukan: Organ del Parti unifie des communistes Haitiens (P.U.C.H.), March 1970. Source: Centre International de Documentation et d’Information Haïtienne, Caribéenne et Afro-Canadienne (CIDIHCA). Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Voodoo Drums and the United States Occupation of Haiti

By The Public Archive | Published: October 13, 2011
Entry for “Voodoo Drum” in the catalog of The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  Accession Date: September 11, 1917. Click here for a link to the entry.
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An nou pote kole pou dekole MINUSTAH: Bring the Rage to Kick Out MINUSTAH

By The Public Archive | Published: July 28, 2011
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 [...]
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Un soldado argentino en Haití es un marine en Iraq

By The Public Archive | Published: May 17, 2011
“Un soldado argentino en Haití es un marine en Iraq,” [Argentina]: [s.n.], [n.d.]. Princeton University Library. Latin American Ephemera Collections.
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How the Haitian people feel about former United States President Woodrow Wilson

By The Public Archive | Published: April 22, 2011
To-day in the history of Haiti the 4th of March is the beginning of a new era. Mr. Harding, the defender of our cause and advocate of our rights, had entered the White House as President of the United States in place of Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the man of baneful prejudices, who [...]
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In Haiti numberless abominable crimes have been committed. To give some idea of their horror we cite only a few cases made public …

By The Public Archive | Published: March 22, 2011
1. Hanging of M. Cicéron Lacroix, execution of Léon Moricet, Téca, and other persons in October and November. 1918, by Lieut. Lang, acts denounced to the naval court of inquiry by M. Philocles Lacroix in his letter of October 20, 1920. 2. Execution of the Péralte brothers by Lieut. Wallace at Mirebalais in December, 1918. Here [...]
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