RBG| The Haitian Revolution_Dr. Edward Scobie and Dr. Gerald Horne on the Situation in Haiti, the Haitian Revolution, with reading (Haiti’s History)

August 6, 2023November 23, 2024RBG Street Scholar 4 Comments

Companion reading: “Revolution came to the French slaveholding colony of Saint Domingue in 1791. When the upheaval finally ran its course more than a decade later, in 1804, the landscape had been completely remade. In one fell swoop, the Haitian Revolution banished slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy, the three foundational institutions of the post-Columbian dispensation in the Americas.” From Haiti, I’m Sorry: The Haitian Revolution and the Forging of the Black International (Pg. 72), Michael O. West & William G. Martin, IN From Toussaint to Tupac_Black International since the Age of Revolution

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As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti

Companion Post/Lesson: Omali Yeshitela_ If Jesus Was A Revolutionary, How Can Your Preacher Be Such An Uncle Tom, with A Haitian Revolution Introduction and Reading…more – RBG Communiversity: Message 2 Da Grassroots

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Debt, Coups & Colonialism in Haiti: France & U.S. Urged to Pay Reparations for Destroying Nation_Democracy Now!

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We look in depth at “The Ransom,” a new series in The New York Times that details how France devastated Haiti’s economy by forcing Haiti to pay massive reparations for the loss of slave labor after enslaved Haitians rebelled, founding the world’s first Black republic in 1804. We speak with historians Westenley Alcenat and Gerald Horne on the story of Haiti’s finances and how Haitian demands for reparations have been repeatedly shut down. Alcenat says the series “exposes the rest of the world to a knowledge that actually has existed for over a hundred years,” and while he welcomes the series, he demands The New York Times apologize for publishing racist Haitian stereotypes in 2010 by columnist David Brooks. Horne also requests The New York Times make the revelatory documents that the series cites accessible to other historians. He says the series will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic.”