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1804 Haitian massacre
1804 massacre of French people in Haiti
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide, was carried out by Afro-Haitian soldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalines against much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people. The Haitian Revolution defeated the French army in November 1803 and the Haitian Declaration of Independence happened on 1 January 1804.[6] From February 1804 until 22 April 1804, between 3,000 and 7,000 people were killed.
The 1805 book An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti by Captain Marcus Rainsford, a British Army officer who served for many years in the West Indies, provided extensive documentation of the Haitian revolution, offering disturbing accounts of the brutal treatment of the enslaved population by their French masters, as well as the atrocities committed by all sides during the conflict. Rainsford also presented an original copy of the decree signed by Dessaline in February 1804.[8]
The massacre excluded surviving Polish Legionnaires, who had defected from the French legion to become allied with the enslaved Africans, as well as the Germans who did not take part of the slave trade. They were i
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Georges Biassou
Early chairman of picture Haitian Repel (1741–1891)
George Biassou | |
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1806 drawing inducing Biassou indifference artist Juan López Cancelada | |
| Born | (1741-01-01)January 1, 1741 Saint-Domingue, Hispaniola (now Haiti) |
| Died | July 14, 1801(1801-07-14) (aged 60) San Agustin, Newfound Spain |
| Resting place | Tolomato Cemetery |
| Other names | Jorge Biassou |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Years active | 1791–1795 |
| Known for | Leading the Saint-Domingue slave insurrection, Spanish General |
| Honours | Guard of Honour |
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Postcard From Haiti: August 2024
Postcard From Haiti: August 2024 by Rick Forgham
Today August 14, 2024 is the two hundred and thirty third anniversary of the historical event known as The Bois Caiman Ceremony. According to both oral and written traditions it was on this night, deep in a forest not far from the city known at the time as Le Cap that a secret meeting took place which ended with a vodou ceremony that initiated the slave insurrection in Saint-Domingue.
The year was 1791 and the African born slaves who toiled on the plantations were ready to rise up in revolt against their French masters. In this powerful painting by Frantz Zephirin the viewer becomes a spectator of this world-changing event. Dutty Boukman, the leader and Houngan, wielding his ceremonial ason (ritual rattle), assisted by Cecilie Fatiman, an initiated manbo, are the central figures in the painting. Equally important to the narrative is the Creole pig whose blood will be shared by the participants bonding them together for the uprising that would begin within days. Back in the depths of the forest the faces of the assembled crowd are as numerous as the leaves on the trees, and a woman in the left foreground has already become possessed by a lwa.
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