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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History May 6, 1794: Toussaint L'Ouverture launched the Haitian revolution for independence against France. As a result of this revolution, the former slaves declared independence from France in 1804, making Haiti the first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70. France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. (For a really great history of the Haitian revolution, please see the Black Jacobins, by H. L. R. James)<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiti</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToussaintLOuverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLOuverture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boukman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boukman</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackjacobins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackjacobins</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/clrjames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clrjames</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday In Labor History April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture died on this day. He was one of the most prominent members of the Haitian revolution for independence from France. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Encouraged by the French and American revolutions. Louverture led 100,000 enslaved Haitians in revolt, winning their freedom in 1793. In 1804, Haiti became first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70 and France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. Louverture was betrayed in the end and died in prison. For a fantastic history of the Haitian Revolution, read “The Black Jacobins,” by C.L.R.James.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toussaintlouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toussaintlouverture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiti</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boukman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boukman</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vodou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vodou</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#independence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackJacobins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackJacobins</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CLRJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLRJames</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

BLK News Now!"We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger." — General <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToussaintLouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLouverture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistory</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History January 1, 1804: Haitian slaves, led by Jean Jacques Desalines, declared independence from France, making Haiti the first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70. France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Toussaint L'Ouverture led the revolution. (For a really great history of the Haitian revolution, please see the “Black Jacobins,” by C. L. R. James)<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiti</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToussaintLOuverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLOuverture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boukman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boukman</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Markus Feilner (has moved)Lebensmotto <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/toussaintlouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toussaintlouverture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/freiheit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freiheit</a>

bsmall2> Freedom was here, in this mountain village with a few animals and gardens on which the people might easily live; freedom was what he himself had come here, for the space of a few hours, to enjoy. <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/MadisonSmarttBell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MadisonSmarttBell</a> in <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/MasterOfTheCrossroads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MasterOfTheCrossroads</a> book 2 of the <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/HaitiTrilogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HaitiTrilogy</a> : <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/ToussaintLouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLouverture</a> thinks on The State and <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/PeasantFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeasantFreedom</a> :<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/AModestUtopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AModestUtopia</a> essay by Paul Goodman comes to mind.

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 22, 1791: Encouraged by the French and American revolutions, Toussaint Louverture led over 100,000 Haitian slaves in a revolt against the French. They were ultimately successful, making Haiti the first black republic in the world. The US refused recognition of Haiti until 1865, as a result of pressure from Southern slaveholders. The French demanded $21 billion In today’s dollars) in reparations for the losses to the former slaveholders, in exchange for peace and recognition of Haiti as an independent nation. The debt was financed through French banks and the U.S. bank, Citibank. The Haitians finally paid it off in 1947. However, the huge interest payments for their independence debt, and the debt incurred through the corruption of the Duvalier dynasty, have made Haiti one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere. Prior to independence, Haiti was the richest and most productive of all of Europe’s colonies.The best book I’ve read on the Haitian Revolution is “The Black Jacobins,” by Trinidadian socialist C.L.R. James. Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier explores the revolution in his novel, “The Kingdom of This World” (1949). You can read more about Toussaint Louverture and the slave uprising in Madison Smartt Bell’s trilogy called “All Souls' Rising” (1995) and Isabel Allende’s 2010 novel, “Island Beneath the Sea.”<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiti</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jacobins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jacobins</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toussaintlouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toussaintlouverture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CLRJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLRJames</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/isabelallende" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#isabelallende</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Carl<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/@benni" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@benni</a> Die Westliche Welt hat Haiti nie verziehen, dass das Land das Ergebnis einer erfolgreichen Revolution gegen die Versklavung ist. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ToussaintLOuverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLOuverture</a>

heimberg_chLe 7 avril 1803, il y a 220 ans aujourd'hui, mourait au <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/FortDeJoux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FortDeJoux</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ToussaintLouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLouverture</a> Il y avait été déporté sans procès par <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Napol%C3%A9onBonaparte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NapoléonBonaparte</a>. Sur <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ToussaintLouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLouverture</a>: <a href="https://memoire-esclavage.org/biographies/toussaint-louverture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://memoire-esclavage.org/biographies/toussaint-louverture</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/fondation_me/status/1644296106338144262" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/fondation_me/status/1644296106338144262</a> À deux pas de la frontière franco-suisse, un lieu d’histoire et de mémoire trop méconnu, au cœur duquel ne pas manquer l’emblématique cellule du reclus. <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/FortDeJoux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FortDeJoux</a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ToussaintLouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToussaintLouverture</a>

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