Weekly courier-journal

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tlss mu-lattoes multiplied growing both

politically and socially Into an inter

mediate caste In-1 TBI under the in

fluences growing through the French

Involution the antipathies of the three'

classes— black white and mixed— burst

forth producing a remarkable struggle

which' ended in the independence of the

island the negroes being banded under

Toussaint- JLouverture In 1803 Bona

parte sent Mil!" brother-in-law Leclerc

with an 'army of 85POO men to restore

French-anthbrity U the island Louver-

turo was seised treaQherously and taken"

a prisoner to France where be died

This guelled the insurrection' but when

the -French attempted 'to re-sUblish

Slavery the negroes again rebelled and

estoblifbed themselves as an Independent

nation whose Independence France ac

knowledged inlG5 'i'he Spanish part

of Uayti in 1848 revolted against their

Haytien oppressors and formed them

selves Into the DominicanV ItopubJUCv'

Alter many vioisa-tuuea vum ww

Spanish portion still exists as a aepa-

rata republic of -Haytl or the 'Black

ifepublio v 'Si Spencer St John for

years British Ife preventative theiS giyest

a picture at onoe ludicrous and pathetic

Utter aavagecy Is dominant eorrnption

of every kind ondezlies the forms ami

tttWs of ssUM-flOyexasMBirIha te-

ligioBj nominally Christ au is reslly

voodoo or scrpcnt-woriddp in which' ao-'

tual cannibulism is even-now an ele

ment Instead of progressing the negro

republicans have gone buck- to the

lowest type of African barbarism

Hartford Ky-lipase publish the en

doited pvem The Uourcr-Jouriiul is tai

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Weekly courier-journal. (1890). Louisville [Ky.], 1890-04-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84038560/1890-04-07/ed-1/?sp=9

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly courier-journal, 1890-04-07.