Category: haiti

what does he think about, i

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here’s a little mouse) and 
what does he think about, i 
wonder as over this 
floor (quietly with 

bright eyes) drifts (nobody 
can tell because 
Nobody knows, or why 
jerks Here &, here, 
gr(oo)ving the room’s Silence) this like 
a littlest 
poem a 
(with wee ears and see? 

tail frisks) 
                               (gonE) 
“mouse,”
               We are not the same and 

i, since here’s a little he 
or is 
it It 
?  (or was something we saw in the mirror)? 

therefore we’ll kiss; for maybe 
what was Disappeared 
into ourselves 
who          (look).          ,startled 

Here’s a Little Mouse, E. E. Cummings

Lionel Benjamin pote yon mesaj ki fè diferans

Toussaint L’Ouverture, Letter to “Citizen Pascal in Paris”, 1799

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L’Ouverture, Toussaint. Letter to “Citizen Pascal in Paris” (#5034), 1799, B, Box: 13, Folder: 7; Box: 21, Folder: 12. Joseph J. Williams, SJ ethnological collection, MS-2009-030. John J. Burns Library.

Burns Library has one of the many letters Louverture wrote to French powers as he attempted to ease their anxieties attached to the situation in Saint Domingue. Addressed to “Citizen Pascal in Paris”, this letter, dated the 28th of March, 1799, reassures its reader that liberty thrives in Saint Domingue, and that Louverture remains dedicated to the French governing body (find image and translation below). There remains an uncertainty as to whether or not Citizen Pascal was an actual person, or rather a name meant to encompass the people of Paris. Louverture claims that any economic struggles that the people of Saint Domingue are facing do not have to do with infertile soil on the island, but rather can be attributed to European and American reluctance to enter the ports of Saint Domingue which “leave the crops without a market.” This letter specifically shows the political maneuvering Louverture had undertaken towards the end of the Revolution as he attempted to appease the French while simultaneously arguing that the people of Saint Domingue were self-sufficient. There are also hints towards the writing of a constitution, which was penned soon after in 1801.

Alaurea Holder, Burns Library Reading Room Assistant & PhD student in the History Department

The First and Last King of Haiti : The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe, Marlene L. Daut

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Thomassin, 2015.

Looking toward Morne Tranchant, 1927

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Image from page 33 of "Bulletin - United States National Museum" (1877)
Text Appearing After Image:
Looking toward Morne Tranchant from the lower slopes of La Selle. note scanty cover of forest Near Furcy, Haiti, April 9, 1927.

Image from page 33 of “Bulletin – United States National Museum” (1877)

Smithsonian Institution

United States National Museum

Buttetin 155

THE BIRDS OF HAITI AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

by

ALEXANDER WETMORE

Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

AND

BRADSHAW H. SWALES

Honorary Assistant Curator of Birds United States National Museum

January 27, 1931

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might be allowed

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“The draft proposal also included an “orange” list of 10 countries for which travel would be restricted but not cut off. In those cases, affluent business travelers might be allowed to enter, but not people traveling on immigrant or tourist visas.

Citizens on that list would also be subjected to mandatory in-person interviews in order to receive a visa. It included Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.” nytimes.

It’s all I have to bring today—
This, and my heart beside—
This, and my heart, and all the fields—
And all the meadows wide—
Be sure you count—should I forget
Some one the sum could tell—
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.

Emily Dickinson