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Maison de Marchandage de Café à Jacmel

Maison de Marchandage de Café à Jacmel

Jacmel is the most beautiful city in Haiti. Within a French Colonial architectural ambiance it is an art center on the island's southern coast and one of the main tourist destinations in the country that suffered greatly in the last devastating earthquake.

Its beautiful buildings and streets were turned into heaps of rubbles. The students of 'Cine Institute of Jacmel' have uploaded a footage of the damage on their institute's website. 'Fosaj' (Fanal Otantik Sant D'A Jakmel) another art school in the city, well known exporter of their paintings is having hardly any business because of ongoing political instability and economic dip. However, Fosaj is considering some rejuvenating plans to come out of the crisis. Fosaj suffered some irreplaceable losses-- Flo McGarrell, a 36-year-old American artist and director of the institute died in the earthquake.

They are reestablishing their links and connection through U.S and Europe to develop good market for art. Jacmel was the capital of funky art and carnival in Haiti; once it gets rebuilt it will become more important than ever.

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Haiti History

Haiti History

In Haiti's early history, following the exploration of Christopher Columbus in late 1492 and the genocide of the Haitian Arawaks under the rule of the Spanish, the nation was known as Saint-Dominique, a colony of France. Then, in 1791, a slave population numbering nearly a half million staged an uprising led famously by Toussaint l'Ouverture which could not be completely quelled by the efforts of France's Napoléon Bonaparte and swelled to triumph in 1804 with Jean-Jacques Dessalines at the helm.

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Haiti History

Haiti History

Haiti's families and history date back to 1842 when Christopher Columbus found an island in the region of the West Atlantic Ocean. This would later become the Caribbean. Even though there were already natives present, Columbus claimed the island now shared by Haiti with the Dominican Republic for Spain. He named the island the Spanish Island which later became Hispaniola.

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