haitian revolution

Camaguey, Cuba's city with largest concentration of Cubans of Haitian descents city with largest concentration of Cubans of Haitian descent

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This is a picture where a Black woman is being marked with a hot iron just like a horse during the slavery period in Saint Domingue, now Haiti.

Haiti is still suffered from the period of slavery that was established under French colonial rule. Under the slavery period, the mulatto descendants became the elite in Haiti after the revolution. The division between the Haitian Mulato and the Black was already in strong. Many of the mulato used their social privileges to acquire wealth, and land. During the colonization period, white masters used brutal methods to terrorize the slaves and keep them powerless.

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Here is a picture the ceremonie of Bois caiman. It is an intricate part of our fight for our independence. Some people feel that it was a voodoo ceremony and should not be included in our history

The Haitian revolution revers the entire cource of the world. The complicity of Frence and the United States after Haiti fought for his independence

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Boisrond-Tonnerre, a French-Haitian author, wrote the Independence Act of Haiti, formally releasing Haiti from French rule. Born in the southwestern part of Haiti, he was sent to France to complete his studies.

He became Jean Jacques Dessalines' private secretary during his reign as Haiti's first ruler. Boisrond-Tonnerre also authored a book on the Haitian Revolution, titled Memoires pour Servir à l'Histoire d'Haiti. His name, Tonnerre, means thunder because he survived being struck by a lightening bolt as a baby.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the Father of Haitian independence was born in Grande-Rivière-du-Nord

Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is the place where Haiti's slave rebellion began, and it was the site of Grade Rivière du Nord Battle.

During U.S. Occupation between 1915-1934, a rebellion was led by resistance fighter Charlemagne Peralte.

The town contains many attributes. It possesses virgin forestland, produces clean mountain-spring drinking water, and participates in agricultural production.

But its infrastructure is not completely developed with bad roads, and absence of an airport. Projects for the town's urbanization are currently in the works.

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Gonaïves, a district located in the Haiti department of Artibonite, is comprised of three communes.

The city contains the Gulf of Gonave harbor, where it exports coffee, cotton, sugar, fruits, and wood products.

It is renowned as Haiti's Independence City, where the Act of Independence was read at its Place d' Armes in 1804.

In 2010 it served as refuge for survivors of the earthquake, depleting its scarce resources. Today it has become a peaceful community.

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The Créole martial arts form, Tire Machèt, has its roots in African tribal traditions. Brought to Haiti by Congolese slaves, it gained ascendency during a period of isolation Haiti endured from the rest of the world.

Prior to the Haitian Slave Revolt, Tire Machèt became weaponry for rebels to destroy their masters' plantations. The Haitian Army adopted Tire Machèt as part of its training and it has evolved to become a modern martial arts skill imbued with sacredness.

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Limbé Prepares Slaves to Overcome French

Limbé, French for limb, is an important part of Haiti's struggle for independence.

Limbé's location in a valley, bounded by mountains, protected the slaves living there from discovery as they hiked mountain paths to meet other slaves living below Limbé.

Meeting clandestinely, they built bonds of trust, which enabled them to form a rebel unit to defeat the French.

Limbé was the staging area for the rebel slaves before they engaged French forces in the Vertieres Battle and triumphed in 1803.

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Of nearly 500,000 slaves in St. Domingue, 400,000 were field slaves and their lives were miserable. They were made to work from dawn to dusk and were under-fed. They were not given proper medical attention and their owners found it easier to buy new slaves to replace the old and the sick and never bothered about treating and retaining the old ones.

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Picture of Toussaint L.Ouverture and Jean Jacques Dessalines

A very short and simple history of Haitian Revolution is that it started in 1791 with an organize slave rebellion and ended in 1803 with the French Colony called St. Domingue turning into the first ever independent black nation called the Republic of Haiti. This is very true but the slave rebellion was not the only rebellion. There were in fact different revolutions that occurred simultaneously because of the French Revolution which started in 1789 in Paris. These included - Planters' move towards independence, the People of Color's revolution and the 1791's slave uprising.

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