Serin Butler

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Americans these dark days can’t even read the word Cuba without reflex-vomiting the word communism, a country whose revolutionary story is simplicity itself, whereas the “Avengers of the New World” in Saint-Domingue from 1793 to 1803 forged history from circumstances incredibly more complex. Moreover, the most famous leader of the first successful slave revolt since nations were formed – Toussant Louverture – died in France. In the words of Laurent Dubois:

“…on April 8, 1803, high in the Jura mountains of France, a doctor was called from a nearby town to the prison at Fort de Joux to examine a corpse. It was Toussant Louverture, who had died the night before….Louverture was gone at the age fifty-nine, his body thrown into an unmarked grave near the prison….Two months later, in Saint- Domingue, a judge in Saint-Marc condemned Louverture for having defrauded a group of planters in 1799 by paying them too little for some of their properties in Artibonite. The planters were invited to take back the properties, while the defendant, having ‘failed to appear,’ was condemned to pay the court costs incurred by the planters.” (pp 296-97)

Present-day Haiti was French Saint-Domingue, if any of this journal’s readers is ignorant of the fact, the western part of the island across the narrow passage from Cuba, the eastern part of which is the Dominican Republic.