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Henri Christophe
Henri Christophe , 1767-1820, Haitian revolutionary leader. A freed black slave, he aided Toussaint L'Ouverture in the liberation of Haiti and was army chief under Dessalines . When the latter declared himself emperor, Christophe took part (1806) in a successful plot against his life and was... Read more |
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Haitian Americans
HAITIAN AMERICANS by Felix Eme Unaeze and Richard E. Perrin Overview Haiti, an independent republic since 1804, is the oldest black republic in the world. It is located in the West Indies on the western third of the Island of Hispaniola, which lies between Cuba and Puerto Rico in the... Read more |
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Antiques
Andre Pierre 1915– Artist At a Glance… Sources Andre Pierre is one of Haiti Read more |
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Francois Duvalier
F RANÇOISD UVALIER Born: April 14, 1907 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Died: April 21, 1971 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Haitian president and physician François Duvalier was the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death. Trained as a physician and... Read more |
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Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince , city (1995 est. pop. 846,200), capital of Haiti, SW Haiti, on a bay at the end of the Gulf of Gonaïves. The country's chief seaport, it exports mainly coffee and sugar. The city has food-processing plants; soap, textile, and cement industries; and other light manufacturing. It... Read more |
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Cap-Haitien
Cap-Haïtien , city (1995 est. pop. 100,600), N Haiti, on the Atlantic Ocean. Haiti's second largest city, it is a seaport, commercial center, and tourist attraction. Agriculture dominates the regional economy, with sisal, sugar, coffee, cacao, bananas, and pineapples as the major commercial... Read more |
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Tortuga
Tortuga [Span.,=turtle], island, c.70 sq mi (180 sq km), off N Haiti. It was a notorious rendezvous of pirates in the 17th cent. It is called Île de la Tortue by the Haitians.... Read more |
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Haitians
Haitians PRONUNCIATION:HAY-shuns LOCATION:Haiti POPULATION:6.6 million LANGUAGE:Haitian Creole; French RELIGION:Voudou (Voodoo); Roman Catholicism; Protestantism 1 • INTRODUCTION Sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, Haiti... Read more |
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Haiti
Haiti , Fr. Haïti , officially Republic of Haiti, republic (2005 est. pop. 8,122,000), 10,700 sq mi (27,713 sq km), West Indies, on the western third of the island of Hispaniola. It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the east by the... Read more |
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola , Span. Española , second largest island of the West Indies, 29,530 sq mi (76,483 sq km), between Cuba and Puerto Rico. Haiti occupies the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic the remainder. Visited by Columbus in 1492, the island was called Española.... Read more |
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Taiwan protests China blocking leader's visit to Haiti
...lure away the other's allies.Haiti is one of Taiwan's 25 remaining...strong displeasure at China's savage deed of intimidating Haiti and exerting pressure through...comply and select a new envoy to Haiti "for the sake of maintaining... |
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HAITI: Is democracy only an illusion?
...and not less.Over 87 percent of Haiti's seven million people are living...Tri-State Defender reported on Haiti's savage history - nearly 70 years of tyranny...was only allowed for a select few.Haiti still has its elite class, principally... |
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Profile: Situation in Haiti, where the people are caught between wanting to...
...Nationally, less than 2 percent of Haiti remains forested, down from...Nicolas is the director general of Haiti's Ministry for the Environment...NICOLAS (Director General, Haiti's Ministry for the Environment): We are witnessing a savage exploitation of what ... |
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Human rights a la USAID. (U.S. Agency for International Development Haiti...
...human-rights reporting from Haiti to make the military regime seem less savage than it really is and maintain...dollar Human Rights Fund for Haiti. In April, U.S. Ambassador...proposal from AID's mission in Haiti, the new human-rights fund... |
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HAITI'S ORDEAL
...of the country's problems. Haiti is the poorest country in this...of AIDS, now widespread in Haiti. In the soil exhausted by misuse...hillsides denuded of trees, a savage struggle for existence goes...desperate search for solutions. Haiti is traditionally ... |
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Boukman and the Voice of Freedom: Standing in Solidarity with Haiti
...Frederick Douglass stated, Haiti's struggle and victory reflected...Christianity in its sanction and savage practice of slavery, and the...Africans to be free. Furthermore, Haiti contributed massively to the...Britain and the colonial French, Haiti incurred ... |
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Dominica's Jacob Frederick: An artist of the floating world
...were demonized in much the same way as the "voodoo savages"of Haiti would later be demonized for daring to overthrow their...inthe forest; no money, no dress. They call us wild savages... It is notsavages but poverty."The British... |
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Why the U.S. and France hate Haiti
...disaster. In the 18th century, Haiti was therichest colony in the...Hemisphere.In the early 1500s, Haiti's indigenous people, the...indigo and thencane sugar. So savage was the slave regime, at first...civilization." To this day Haiti remains essentially an ... |
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The only successful slave revolt in the world; Haiti's revolution for...
...would continue to bedevil Haiti. Napoleon Bonaparte resented...independence, and he coveted Haiti's wealth. In early 1802...After a year and a half of savage guerrilla warfare and an epidemic...and left. On Jan. 1, 1804, Haiti proclaimed its independence... |
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The white curse.(Eduardo Galeano's View from the South)(Haiti's history )
...so. Since its revolution, Haiti has been capable only of mounting...fratricide derives from its savage African heredity. The rule...it. To reinstate slavery in Haiti, France sent more than 50 shiploads...French debt'. France made Haiti pay dearly for the ... |
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