THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE. Educator and writer David Austin is among the foremost chroniclers of Pan-Africanism, Black Power, and West Indian intellectual and political history in the Americas. He has three books to his name: A View for Freedom, an oral history of the late St. Vincents-born, Montreal-based cricketer and organizer Alphonso Theodore “Alfie” Roberts, You […]
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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 […]
Henri Christophe sets fire to Le Cap
Jacob Lawrence, Toussaint L’Ouverture series, no. 32 (1938)
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Also tagged 1802, 1938, archives, art, Christophe, Haiti, representation
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Débarquement de la flotte française à Saint-Domingue, faisant suite aux Révolutions de cette île.
Débarquement de la flotte française à Saint-Domingue, faisant suite aux Révolutions de cette île. Guerre à mort entre les Français et les Noirs. Carnage horrible, incendies, devastations, les Français chasses de Saint-Domingue. (1803). Click here for larger image and more information.
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Also tagged 1800s, 1803, archives, Cap François, Cap Haitien, Christophe, France, Haiti, Saint-Domingue, slavery
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Vue de l’incendie de la ville du Cap Français. Arrivée le 21 juin 1793.
Vue de l’incendie de la ville du Cap Français. Arrivée le 21 juin 1793. Gravure coloriée de Jean-Baptiste Chapuy d’après J. L. Boquet. Archives départementales de la Martinique (Fort-de-France). Click image for high-resolution original.
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Also tagged 1700s, 1793, archives, art, Cap Français, Cap François, Cap Haitien, Haiti, history, representation, Saint-Domingue
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“Voodooism” Increases Profits
On the tendency of white foreigners, especially, and recently American negroes, to read dark, jungle atavism into even the most guileless aspects of Haitian life, our author has this to say: “Many good missionaries have come to us from the United States and elsewhere to advise us to preserve our traditions, customs, and African cults […]
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Also tagged 1943, 1970, Haiti, history, religion, sovereignty, United States
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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)
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Also tagged 1804, 1822, art, Dessalines, Haiti, Petion, race, representation, sovereignty
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Haiti: Mackandal
It is not above twenty-five years ago, that the island of St. Domingo trembled at the single name of Mackandal. Born in Africa, in one of the countries at the foot of Mount Atlas, he was unquestionably of high rank; for his education had been attended to with an assiduity not common among the negroes. […]