The Market of Saviors

“Every sufficiently educated Haitian indeed believes himself destined to occupy the highest office of his country.

The Market of Saviors

Drapeau devant les grilles du Palais national

“Every sufficiently educated Haitian indeed believes himself destined to occupy the highest office of his country.”

Report from the French Legation in Haiti to the Quai d’Orsay, January 12, 1896, cited in Leslie F. Manigat, La crise haïtienne contemporaine, CHUDAC, 2009 [1995], pp. 36–37

On January 12, 1896, the French Legation in Haiti sent a political report to the Quai d’Orsay on the state of the country. The diagnosis is clinical. French diplomats observe &l

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