The Official Early(pre-1950s) Haitian History Thread

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This is a good thread.i just learned about Dessalines a few years ago.

Reading that US "treaty" after invasion is infuriating.

 

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
By THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE | Published: SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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 that sacrilegious horde make an attempt upon our destruction, without any distinction of sex or age; and we, men without energy, of no virtue, of not delicate sensibility, should not we have plunged in their breast the dagger of desperation? Where is that vile Haitian, so unworthy of his regeneration, who thinks he has not accomplished the decrees of the Eternal, by exterminating these blood-thirsty tygers? If there is one, let him fly; indignant nature discards him from our bosom; let him hide his shame far from hence: the air we breath is not suited to his gross organs; it is the pure air of Liberty, august and triumphant.

Yes, we have rendered to these true cannibals war for war, crime for crime, outrage for outrage; yes, I have saved my country; I have avenged America. The avowal I make of it in the face of earth and heaven, constitutes my pride and my glory. Of what consequence to me is the opinion which contemporary and future generations will pronounce upon my conduct? I have performed my duty; I enjoy my own approbation; for me that is sufficient. But what do I say? The preservation of my unfortunate brothers, the testimony of my own conscience, are not my only recompense: I have seen two class of men, born to cherish, assist and succour one another — mixed, in a word, and blended together — crying for vengeance, and disputing the honor of the first blow.


Blacks and Yellows, whom the refined duplicity of Europeans has for a long time endeavored to divide; you, who are now consolidated, and make but one family; without doubt it was necessary that our prefect reconciliation should be sealed with the blood of your butchers. Similar calamaties have hung over your proscribed heads: a familiar ardour to slake your enemies, has signalized you: the like fate is reserved for you: and the like interests must therefore render you fore ever one, indivisible, and inseparable. Maintain this precious concord, that happy harmony amongst yourselves: it is the pledge of your happiness, your salvation, and your success: It is the secret of being invincible…

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, “Liberty or Death. Proclamation. Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Governor General, to the People of Hayti,” Balance and Columbian Repository (June 19, 1804):

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

 

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#OnThisDay in 1806: Jean-Jacques #Dessalines, leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent #Haiti, was assassinated in Pont Larnage (now known as Pont-Rouge).

#Philately #Stamps


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John Brown and Hayti
By THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE | Published: JUNE 11, 2014

John Brown was not a madman to shed blood when he knew the penalty for so doing was his own life. In the opening he had sense enough to know better than that, but wanted the citizens of Virginia calmly to hold arms and let him usurp the government, manumit our slaves, confiscate the property of slaveholders, and without drawing a trigger or shedding blood, permit him to take possession of the Commonwealth and make it another Hayti. Such an idea is too abhorrent to pursue.

Andrew Hunder, representing the Commonwealth of Virginia, The Trial of John Brown, Charlestown, Virginia, Monday, Oct. 30, 1859.

… [John Brown] had posted himself in relation to the wars of Toussaint L’Overture; he had become thoroughly acquainted with the wars in Hayti and the islands round about; and from all these things he had drawn the conclusion, believing, as he stated there’ he did believe, and as we all (if I may judge from myself) believed, that upon the first intimation of a plan formed for the liberation of the slaves, they would immediately rise all over the Southern States.

Testimony of Richard Realf (Officer with John Brown’s Provisional Government), before the Senate Committee Investigating the Attack at Harpers Ferry, January 21, 1860.

The journals contain the following letter from VICTOR HUGO, which he had written in response to a communication addressed him by three citizens of Hayti, in Paris:

HAUTEVIILE HOUSE, ISLE OF GUERNSEY, Dec. 28, 1859.

CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC: I thank you for the eloquent terms in which you have addressed me. Your words reach my heart. A white and a black Republic are sisters, the same as a white and black man are brothers. There is only one humanity, because there is only one God. The French Republic had negroes among the representatives of its people; and that is the one thing that made it above all glorious.

I have been sadly deceived in that fraternity of races, the Southern States of the American Union. In killing BROWN they have committed a crime which will take place among the calamities of history. The rupture of the Union will fatally follow the assassination of BROWN.

What an event! What a disaster!

I am afflicted at heart in thinking of this crime and this fault.

As to JOHN BROWN, he was an apostle and a hero. The gibbet has only increased his glory and made him a martyr.

Black and white, all brothers, all equal, let us rally more and more around that principle of all principles — Liberty. Your friend, VICTOR HUGO.

I love your Republic. Let your people know it.

In Jacmel, Gonaives, Cape Haytien, Cayes and Port-au-Prince, religious services had been held in commemoration of JOHN BROWN, and Le Progress published appeals calling on the people to subscribe liberally for the benefit of the widow of the executed man.

Le Progress also contains an address to the “Philanthropists of America,” in which special allusion is made to Albany, N.Y., in the following terms:

“Citizens of Albany, the cannon you fired to commemorate the death of JOHN BROWN has reechoed in the hearts of Haytians and of the strangers in our land, and reverberates through our fields and cities. Your energetic protest against an act of barbarity does you the greatest honor, as it evidently proves that there exist in the American Republic courageous men devoted-to the holy cause of the freedom of the blacks. Receive, then, the sincere thanks of the citizens of the Republic of Hayti — a Republic that its enemies on another continent represent as always in ruin. Albanians, the Haytians are without prejudice: they receive without hesitation all who come to join them. It is by our conduct, and by that alone, that you can find arguments capable of refuting the assertions of those enemies of humanity who decry us.”

Letter from Hayti, New York Times (March 3, 1860)

From Le Progres, in Hayti, comes an article calling upon people to go to “the subscription offices opened in every town, to honor the memory of John Brown and glorify our race….From the opposite shores of our harbor our fathers, the brave soldiers of 1804, are contemplating us. They are touched with joy and delight.” March 16, 1860

“John Brown in Hayti,” The Liberator (March 16, 1860)

Image: Augustus Washington, John Brown with Subterranean Pass-Way Flag, Quarter-plate daguerreotype, circa 1846/1847. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

John Brown and Hayti

 

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The training for the Haitian Revolution's Dessalines.

 

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Thursday, October 31, 2019

Haitians Still Seek Justice 100 Years after the Assassination of Charlemagne Peralte

On Thursday, marches and protests were held, as has been the case, daily, in recent weeks but also on this day was partly for the annual October 31 date remembering the killing of Charlemagne Peralte and calling for justice.

From America Latina by Fernando Bossi:
Haiti is a bad example for the United States. Haitian blacks had not only freed themselves from Spanish, English and French colonialism, but had also freed themselves from opprobrious slavery. While the abolition was being implemented in the Caribbean island, thousands and thousands of slaves bled out in the southern plantations of the country founded by Washington.

The American governments always got angry with Haiti. First they blocked it, and then supported the white oligarchy in the dispossession of the lands of the poor peasants. Sugar plantations broke through the tragic deforestation. Not satisfied with this, in 1915 they invaded the country, taking the safe with all monetary reserves, seizing Customs, allowing foreigners to buy Haitian land and installing the Haitian American Sugar Company as the main agribusiness company and the City Bank as the main financial entity.

One of those who was in charge of the invasion was General Smedley Butler. This character, awarded with honors and medals, already in his retirement and with a mixture of cynicism and sincerity said: “I have served for 30 years and four months in the most combative units of the US armed forces: in the Marines. I have the feeling of having acted during all this time of highly qualified bandit, at the service of the great businesses of Wall Street and its bankers.”

Before the US military occupation, a group of patriotic officers, commanded by Charlemagne Peralte, organized the resistance. Guerrilla warfare broke out throughout the territory. The fight was bloody and the Yankees had to appeal to reinforcements. The brutal imperialist action was mass murder, fires of entire populations, torture and abuses of all kinds. The counterface to Yankee bestiality was the heroism of the Haitians.

Only betrayal could with Charlemagne Peralte. A gringo officer in disguise killed him by shooting him in the heart. It was on November 1, 1919 and his body was hung and displayed, tied to a door, in a public square. The Yankees photographed Charlemagne's body and circulated the image for the insurrection of Haitian insurgents. More Haitians saw in that image a martyred black Christ, and also an example of patriotism and revolutionary conviction.

On the centenary of the passage to the immortality of the patriotic and anti-imperialist leader Charlemagne Peralte, the Haitian people are once again fighting against their historical enemies.

The little resonance in the media of this new uprising of the Haitian people draws attention, and I do not only say of the means in the hands of the great capital - which is logical that no protests are held - but also of the progressive or leftist media.

Eternal glory to Charlemagne Peralte!

Long live the struggle of the heroic people of Haiti!

Link:
Haitians Still Seek Justice 100 Years after the Assassination of Charlemagne Peralte

 

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the assassination by US marines of #Haiti's revolutionary leader Charlemagne Peralte. http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/05/16/haiti-could-charlemagne-peraltes-example-inspire-a-new-revolution-part-ii/ …

 

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François Borgia Charlemagne Péralte (1885 or 1886-1919) was a Haitian nationalist revolutionary and leader of the Cacos movement, opposed to the occupation of Haiti by the United States, captured and executed by the American army near Grande-Rivière. North.

 

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US occupation (1915-1934) of #Haiti is important because it created today's apartheid system. The treasury was looted and all funds were transferred to Citibank-New York, the constitution was rewritten, and a white and Middle Eastern minority was given control over the economy.

 

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The brutality of the police in #Haiti has its roots in the 1915-1934 US occupation. The revolutionary army was replaced with a brutal, subservient army operated under American auspices. After it was dismantled in 1995, the US began to militarize the police force.

 

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#Haiti is the US military's longest occupation to date 1915-1934. US marines used slave labor 2 build infrastructure by establishing a new corvée system. US marines brutally repressed caco resistance fighters & murdered their leader, Charlemagne Peralte http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part08-slide05.html …

 

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Fred Hampton has a accurate description of Papa Doc and the result of neo-colonialism in Haiti and America.

 

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Fred Hampton has a accurate description of Papa Doc and the result of neo-colonialism in Haiti and America.

Good video. Papa Doc used the "we / us" & "them" games to get the Black masses to follow him. By the time they woke up from the trance, it was too late.

Hampton's point about educating followers, and discouraging those blindly following the BPP is one of the reasons why the government saw leaders like him as a threat. He was creating other future leaders.