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272. ISBN. 9781788732475. The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is a 2018 book by Julius S. Scott, based on his influential but previously unpublished 1986 Duke University doctoral dissertation. The book traces the circulation of news in African diasporic communities in the Caribbean around the time of the ...
An Unbroken Agony. An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President is a book on the history of Haiti by Randall Robinson in 2008. According to Randall Robinson, this book describes a non-standard history of Haiti. The title suggests to the reader that emphasis is put on the "Kidnapping of a President".
In about 1767, Dutty Boukman was born in the region of Senegambia (present-day Senegal and Gambia), where he was an ulama.He was captured in Senegambia, and transported as a slave to the Caribbean, first to the island of Jamaica, then Saint-Domingue, modern-day Haiti, where he reverted to his indigenous religion and became a Haitian Vodou houngan priest. [1]
In partnership with Soyeste Koukouy, the free festival will be held on Sunday, May 5 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center and will cater to lovers of Haitian literature, food and culture.
Beaubrun Ardouin. Alexis Beaubrun Ardouin (October 30, 1796 – August 30, 1865) was a Haitian historian and politician. He wrote the eleven-volume Études sur l'Histoire d'Haïti ( Studies on the History of Haiti ), published in the 1850s and 60s. [ 1] His Études have served as a valuable resource for later historians.
The National Library of Haiti ( BNH; French: Bibliothèque nationale d'Haïti) is Haiti's legal deposit library, with a collection of approximately 26,000 volumes. [1] It is located in the capital, Port-au-Prince and is the principal library of the city. The current head of the library is Dangelo Neard.
Leslie G. Desmangles was born in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) on September 28, 1941. Professor Desmangles graduated from Eastern University in 1964 with a B.A. in Music, from Palmer Seminary in Philadelphia with an M. Div. in Theology, and from Temple University in 1975 with a Ph.D. in Anthropology of Religion, specializing in Caribbean and African ...
The Quand nos Aïeux brisèrent leurs entraves was originally a poem written by Oswald Durand. [1] In 1893, a visiting German warship set course to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to stopover and by protocol that required that a national anthem be performed. At the time, Haiti did not have an anthem, so the composer Occide Jeanty offered ...