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abolitionists
Acaau, Louis Jean-Jacques
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Africa
African Americans
African Institution
Afro-American (newspaper)
agriculture. See also lakou system; land ownership; métayage; plantations; rural population; tenant farmers; and specific crops
Boyer and
Christophe and
cooperative model of
Dessalines and
Duvaliers and
Louverture and
Pétion and
stagnation of, in 1950s
subsistence vs. export crops
taxes and
U.S. occupation and
Alaux, Gustave d’. See Reybaud, Maxime
Alexander, emperor of Russia
Alexis, Jacques-Stephen
Alexis, Nord
Allen, John H.
Alliance for Progress
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Anderson, Marian
Anglade, Georges
Anthropological Society of Paris
anti-communism
Araignées du Soir, Les
Ardouin, Beaubrun
Ardouin, Céligny
Aristide, Jean-Bertrand
arms aid and sales
Artibonite Valley
authoritarianism. See also presidency, power of
Báez, Buenaventura
Bahamas
bananas
Banks, Joseph
Banque National d’Haïti (BNH)
Baptists
Barbot, Clément
Barnett, George
baseball production
Batista, Fulgencio
baton-lamnò treatment
Batraville, Benoît
Bawon Samèdi (Vodou lwa)
Beauvoir, Max
Belgium
Bellegarde, Dantès
Belley, Jean-Baptiste
Bennett, Michèle
Benoît, François
Betances, Ramón Emeterio
Bizoton
Black Bagdad (Craige)
“black communism”
Blackhurst, James
blacks. See also elites, color and class and
Blaine, James
Boas, Franz
Bobo, Rosalvo
Bois Caïman ceremony
Bolívar, Simón
Borno, Louis
Bosch, Juan
Boukman
Boyer, Jean-Pierre
Brazil
Brokaw, Louis A.
Brooks, David
Brouard, Carl
Brown, John
Bryan, William Jennings
Buffon, Comte de (George-Louis Leclerc)
Butler, Smedley Darlington
Button, William R.
Caco wars
cagoulards
Calice, Caliska
Cambronne, Luckner
Campbell, Chandler
Candio (August de Pradines)
Cannibal Cousins (Craige)
cannibalism, accusations of
Caperton, William
Caribbean Confederation
carnival
Carter, Jimmy
Casimir, Jean
Catholic Church
Catlin, Albertus
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Césaire, Aimé
Chabert prison camp
Charles X, king of France
Chauvet, Ernest
Chicago Defender (newspaper)
Christianity. See also specific denominations
Christophe, Ferdinand
Christophe, Henry
death of
Duvalier and
indemnity and
as king
Pétion vs.
war of independence and
Christophe, Jacques-Victor-Henry
Citadelle Laferrière, La (Citadel)
Cius, Jean-Robert
Clarkson, Thomas
Clinton, Bill
Clyde, William P.
coaling depots
Coanabo, Cacique
Cochinat, Victor
cocoa crops
Code Henry
Code Rural
coffee
Cold War
colonial militia
Columbus, Christopher
Compagnie Nationale des Chemins de Fer d’Haïti (National Railroad)
Congress of Arcahaye (1803)
Congress of Panama (1826)
Congress of Vienna (1814–15)
Conrad, Joseph
Conseil National de Gouvernment (CNG)
Conzé, Jean-Baptiste
Cook, James
corruption
Corsican immigrants
corvée labor
cotton
counter-plantation system
Craige, John Houston
creoles. See also elites; mulattoes
Crête-à-Pierrot (Haitian warship)
Crisis (NAACP magazine)
Cuba
expelled from OAS
immigration to
revolution of 1959
U.S. occupation of
Cuban refugees
“cultivators”
customs. See also taxes and tariffs
Dalmas, Antoine
Damien agricultural school
Daniels, Josephus
Danticat, Edwidge
Darfour, Félix
Dartigue, Maurice
Dartiguenave, Philippe Sudre
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Défilée
deforestation
Déjoie, Louis
Déjoie, Louis, Jr.
De la littérature des nègres (Grégoire)
Delorme, Demesvar
democracy, struggle for
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Denis, Lorimer
Dessalines, Jean-Jacques
assassination of
Duvalier and
flag and
Hispaniola and
memory of
rule by
war of independence and
Diagne, Blaise
Díaz, Porfirio
dissent
Dominican Republic
border and
coup of 1963
massacre of 1937 and
migrants to
independence of 1844
independence of 1865
restored to Spain
Soulouque invades
treaty of 1874
U.S. and
Dominique, Jean
Dorsinville, Roger
Douglass, Frederick
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Dulles, John Foster
Dumesle, Hérard
Boukman and
exile of
Dunham, Katherine
Duvalier, François “Papa Doc”
background of
constitution of 1957 and
constitution of 1964 and
death of
election of
U.S. and
Vodou and
Duvalier, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc”
Duvalier, Simone Ovide Faine
“Duvalierism after Duvalier”
earthquakes
of 1842
of 2010
education
Egypt
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
elections
of 1810
of 1842
of 1902
of 1917
of 1918, constitutional referendum
of 1930
of 1935
of 1946
of 1957
of 1961, referendum on Duvalier
of 1964, constitutional referendum
of 1971, constitutional referendum
of 1990
of 1995
of 2005
constitution of 1843 and
constitution of 1846 and
U.S. occupation and
electoral commission
elites
Acaau uprising and
Christophe and
color and class and
Dessalines and
Liberal Party vs. National Party and
mass population and
Price-Mars and
reformers and
Soulouque and
U.S. occupation and
English language
Episcopal Church
Equality of the Human Races, The (Firmin)
Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (Gobineau)
Estimé, Dumarsais
ethnographic movement
evangelical groups
Everett, Edward
exports. See also taxes and tariffs; and specific crops
ex-slaves
extended families
Farnham, Roger
feminists
Féry, Honoré
Festival of Agriculture
Fignolé, Daniel
finances (budget, debt). See also indemnity
Firmin, Anténor
anthropology and racial theories of
constitution of 1889 and
Cuba and
Duvalier and
elections of 1879 and
elections of 1902 and
exile and death of
Hyppolite and
Puerto Rico and
Sam and
uprising of 1888 and
U.S. and
U.S. Môle cession rejected by
Firminisme
Forbes, William Cameron
Forbes Commission
foreign aid
foreign investment
foreign merchants
Fort Dimanche prison
Fort Liberté
Fort Rivière
Fourcand, Jacques
Fourier, Charles
France
Britain and
Christophe and
Christophe and Pétion negotiate for recognition by
colonial rule by
cultural links with
Dumesle on
Duvalier and
economic dominance of
Firmin and
indemnity paid off
Price-Mars and
recognition by, and indemnity
Revolution of 1789
slave revolt of 1791 and
Soulouque satire in
threats by
U.S. and
war of independence vs.
Freeman, George
free people of color
French banks
French Code Noir
French Direction de la Monnaie
French language
French merchants
French National Convention of 1794
French priests
fruit plantations
Gaetjens, Joe
Gaillard, Roger
Garde d’Haïti (formerly Gendarmerie)
Geffrard, Fabre
Gendarmerie (later Garde d’Haïti)
German immigrants
German merchants
Germany
Lüders case
World War I and
Gherardi, Bancroft
Gobineau, Arthur, Comte de
Goman (Jean-Baptiste Perrier)
Gompers, Samuel
Gonaïves
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord
Grant, Ulysses S.
Great Britain
Grégoire, Henri (Abbé)
Guadeloupe
guano
Guantánamo Bay
Guerrier, Philippe (Duc de l’Avancé)
guerrilla warfare. See Caco wars
Haiti. See also Saint-Domingue
Alexis presidency (1902–8)
Aristide presidency (1991)
bicameral legislature replaced with single Congress
Borno presidency (1922–30)
Boyer presidency (1818–43) and reunification of
Christophe monarchy (1806–20) in north
civil wars. See uprisings and civil wars
Columbus and
complex history and culture of
constitutions. See Haitian constitutions
Dartiguenave presidency (1915–22)
Dessalines presidency (1804–6)
divided between Christophe and Pétion
Dominican Republic and
Dumesle’s history of
Dumesle’s leadership of (1843–44)
Duvalier fils presidency (1971–86)
Duvalier père presidency (1957–71)
Estimé presidency (1946–50)
Europe as model of governance
Firmin-Alexis campaign of 1902
Firmin and U.S. and
Firmin on racism and
flag by Dessalines
flag by Duvalier
flag by Pétion
foreign influence in contemporary
foreign threats to
founding ceremony of
French banks and
French colonial rule
French exiled planters and
French priests in
French Revolution and
future of
Geffrard presidency (1859–67)
Guerrier presidency (1844–45)
Hérard presidency (1843–44)
Hyppolite presidency (1889–96)
indemnity to France
indemnity to Germany
independence declared by
Légitime presidency (1888–89)
Lescot presidency (1941–46)
Liberal Party vs. National Party and
Louverture rule in (1791–1802)
Magloire presidency (1950–56)
map of
Martelly presidency (2011– )
names of
negative stereotypes of
NGOs and
official language of
Pétion presidency, in south (1806–18)
political instability of central, vs. local stability
Préval presidency (1996–2001)
recognition of, by foreign powers
recognition of, by France
recognition of, by U.S.
recognition of, by Vatican
reform in, post-Duvalier
religions and (see also specific religions)
Roosevelt Corollary and
rural culture of
Salnave presidency (1867–69)
Salomon presidency (1879–88)
Sam fils presidency (1915)
Sam père presidency (1896–1902)
“Second Independence” of 1934
sesquicentennial of independence (1954)
social infrastructure of
Soulouque monarchy (1847–59)
U.S. attempt to control customs in
U.S. Civil War and
U.S. convention of 1916 and
U.S. fear of slave revolt and
U.S. Marines land in
U.S. occupation of (1915–34)
U.S. seeks naval station in
U.S. takes Navassa from
U.S. threats to, in nineteenth century
U.S. trade and
U.S. withdrawal from (1934)
Vincent presidency (1930–41)
World War I and
Haïti (ship)
Haitian American Development Corporation
Haitian-American Sugar Company (HASCO)
Haitian army. See also Garde d’Haïti; Gendarmerie; Tontons Makouts
Aristide and
constitution of 1816 and
constitution of 1987 and
Duvaliers and
elections of 1902 and
local administration and
president as commander in chief of
uprising of 1843 and
uprisings of 1911–15 and
U.S. occupation and
Haitian Boy Scouts
Haitian Bureau
Haitian Catholic bishops
Haitian Chamber of Deputies (later combined into Congress of Deputies)
Haitian Congress of Deputies
Haitian constitutions
of 1801
of 1805
of 1816
of 1843
of 1846
of 1843–89
of 1889
of 1918
of 1932
of 1935
of 1957
of 1964
of 1971
of 1987
death of Dessalines and
Haitian emigration and diaspora
Haitian League of Human Rights
Haitian National Assembly
Haitian Red Cross
Haitian Revolution (slave revolt)
Dumesle visits sites of
Firmin on
impact of, on U.S.
memory and promise of
Sans-Souci as hero of
Haitian Senate (later combined into Congress of Deputies)
abolished
Haitian War of Independence (1801–3)
Haïti Intégrale (newspaper)
Hakim-Rimpel, Yvonne
Hanneken, Herman
Harding, Warren
Harlem Renaissance
Harpers Ferry
Harrison, Benjamin
Hayne, Robert
Hayti; or, The Black Republic (St. John)
Haytian Agricultural Corporation
Haytian Pineapple Company
Hazard, Samuel
health care
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
Heinl, Robert
Hérard, Rivière
Hinche
Hispaniola
Holly, Joseph Theodore
Hooker, Richard
Horoscope (magazine)
Hughes, Langston
Hurbon, Laënnec
hurricane of 1954
Hyppolite, Florville
indemnity
to France
to Germany
to Haiti, by Trujillo
Indépendance, L’ (ship)
indigénism
indigo
International American Conference (1889)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Jacobins
Jamaica
Janvier, Louis-Joseph
Jean-Joseph, Josaphat
Jeannot
Jeanty, Occide
“1804”
Jefferson, Thomas
Jérémie killings
Jeune Haïti
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, James Weldon
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jolibois, Joseph
Joseph (Piquet leader)
Kant, Immanuel
Kennedy, John F.
assassination of
Killick, Hammerton
Kingdom of Haiti
Knox, Clinton
Kongo region (Africa)
Kreyòl language
development of
Dumesle poem in
Haitian culture and
official use of
Roumain poem in
Krome detention camp (Florida)
laborers (field workers; agriculteurs). See also corvée labor; rural population
attached to plantations
Duvalier and emigrant
forced
HASCO and
La Gravière, Jurian de
lakou system
land ownership
cultural practices and
expropriation and
foreigners banned from
foreign ban lifted
reciprocal obligations of
redistribution and
state and
whites banned from
Lansing, Robert
Lavalas Party
League for the Maintenance of National Independence
League of Nations
Le Bon, Gustave
Le Cap
chair of medicine
earthquake of 1842 and
railroad and
Leclerc, Victor Emmanuel
Leconte, Cincinnatus
left, the
Léger, J. N.
Légitime, François Denys
Lehman Brothers
Léogâne
Les Cayes
massacre of 1929
Lescot, Élie
Les Frères Parent (musical group)
Liberal Party
Liberia
Lincoln, Abraham
Logan, Rayford
Louverture, Moïse
Louverture, Toussaint Bréda
abolitionists and
constitution of 1801 and
death of
Duvalier and
revolution of 1791 and
rule by
war of independence and
Love, Anger, Madness (Vieux-Chauvet)
Lüders, Emil
Lugosi, Bela
lumber exports
lwa (gods)
Lycée Pétion
MacDonald, James P.
Machias, USS (warship)
Mackau, Ange René Armand, Baron de
Madiou, Thomas
Magic Island, The (Seabrook)
Magloire, Paul
Maïssade
Malouet, Pierre-Victor
manbos (Vodou priestesses)
Manigat, Leslie
markets
marriage
Martelley, Michel
Martí, José
Martinique
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Masters of the Dew (Roumain)
McIlhenny, John A.
Medina, Agostino Franco de
Menos, Solon
métayage (sharecropping)
Methodists
Métraux, Alfred
Miller, Adolph
Miller, Ivan W.
Mintz, Sidney
Moïse, Claude
Môle Saint-Nicolas port
Monroe, James
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Moravia, Charles
Moreau, Yvon Emmanuel
Morrison, Herbert
mulattoes. See also elites
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon)
Nation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Bank of Haiti. See Banque National d’Haïti
National Cathedral
National City Bank (New York)
nationality laws
National Palace
explosion of 1869
explosion of 1912
rebuilt
National Party
National Security Volunteers. See Tontons Makouts
Navassa
Nemours, Alfred
neoliberalism
New Granada
newspapers
Newsweek
New York Herald
New York Times
Nicaragua
Nixon, Richard
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
North Haytian Sugar Company
Nouvelliste, Le (newspaper)
Obin, Philomé
“The Crucifixion of Charlemagne Péralte for Liberty”
Ogé, Vincent
Ogou (god)
Ogou Dessalines (god)
Oreste, Michel
Organization of American States (OAS)
Orthodox Apostolic Church
ouanga (“new magic”)
Ouiliyanm (Dorcas Lee William)
oungans (Vodou priests)
Pan-African Congresses
Panama
Panama Canal
Pan-Americanism
Parti Communiste Haïtien
Pascal-Trouillot, Ertha
Patriote (newspaper)
penal code
Pentecostals
Péralte, Charlemagne
assassination of
state funeral of 1934
Pétion, Alexandre
background of
Christophe vs.
civil war vs. Christophe and
death of
Dumesle and
Duvalier and
education and
France and
Goman vs.
land and labor and
legacy of
as president, Republic of Haiti
taxes and
war of independence and
Petit Séminaire Collège Saint-Martial
Philippines
Phillips, Wendell
Pierre, Dolciné
Pierre, Joseph
Pignon
pig slaughter
Piquet uprisings
plaçage practice
plantations
Plessy, Homer
political exiles
political participation
politique de doublure
Polverel, Étienne
Polyné, Millery
Pont-Rouge
Port-au-Prince
activists of 1830s in
bicentiennial of 1949
earthquake of 1842
earthquake of 2010 and
first fire company
free people of color and
growth of, in twentieth century
map
medical school in
other regions vs.
protests of 1946 in
renaissance of 1920s
uprisings of 1911–15 in
U.S. and
ports
poverty
Powell, William F.
Pradines, August de. See Candio
presidency, power of. See also authoritarianism
Preston, Stephen
Préval, René
Price, Hannibal
Price-Mars, Jean
private voluntary organizations. See nongovernmental organizations
Progrès, Le (ship)
Protestant missionaries
Puerto Rico
Puller, Lewis
racial hierarchies. See also blacks; elites; mulattoes; whites
racism
Europe and
internalization of
U.S. and
railroads
Raimond, Julien
Rainsford, Marcus
Rameau, Benoît
rara music
Reagan, Ronald
regional order
remittances
Renan, Ernest
Republican Party (U.S.)
Republic of Haiti
République, La (coast guard boat)
Revue des Deux Mondes (magazine)
Reybaud, Maxime (Gustave d’Alaux)
rice
Rigaud, André
Riobé, Hector
roads
Robertson, Pat
Rochambeau, Donatien
Rockefeller, Nelson
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, John
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosati, Joseph
Roumain, Jacques
Masters of the Dew
poems for son
widow of
Royal Bonbons
Royal Dahomets
rubber
rural population (peasants; small farmers)
Boyer and
Catholicism, Vodou, and Protestantism and
Code Rural and
coffee exports and
comfort of, in nineteenth century
contemporary
culture and autonomy of
dispossession of
Duvalier and
elections of 1902 and
elites vs.
HASCO and
land plots of, and slavery
local governance and
negative views of
post-occupation regimes and
Price-Mars on
Roumain on
taxes and
uprisings of
USAID pig slaughter and
U.S. occupation and
Vincent on
Rusk, Dean
Russell, John
Russia
Saint-Domingue (French colony)
abolition of slavery
Christophe arrives in
constitution of 1801 and
established
export crops and
free vs. slave population in
irrigation and
Louverture as governor general (1794–1801)
revolution of 1791
trade with U.S.
Vodou and Kreyol and
war of independence of 1801–3
St. John, Spenser
Saint-Méry, Moreau de
Saint-Rémy, Romuald Lepelletier de
Saint-Simon, Henri de
St. Thomas
Salnave, Sylvain
Salomon, Lysius
Sam, Tiersius Antoine
Sam, Vilbrun Guillaume
Sandino, Augusto
Sannon, Pauléus
Sansaricq family
Sans-Souci (revolt leader)
Sans-Souci palace
academy of painting and
earthquake of 1842 and
Marian Anderson at
name origin
Santana, Pedro
Santo Domingo (later Dominican Republic)
Boyer rules
colony established
Haitian Revolution and
insurgency of 1821 vs. Spain
rebellion of 1840s, vs. Haiti
Saunders, Prince
Schmidt, Hans
Schoelcher, Victor
Seabrook, William
Seitenfus, Ricardo
Senegal
Service Technique de l’Agriculture and de l’Enseignement Professionnel
SHADA. See Société Haitiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole
sharecroppers. See métayage; tenant farmers
slavery
abolition of
Britain and
fear of return of
France and
U.S. and
U.S. occupation and
zonbi and
slaves
brutality vs.
culture of
number of
Price-Mars on
revolt of 1790–91 and
slave trade
social security system
Société des Coeurs Unis
Société Général de Crédit Industriel et Commercial
Société Haitiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole (SHADA)
Society for the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Society of Amazons
Sonthonax, Léger Félicité
So Spoke the Uncle (Price-Mars)
“Sou Lan Mè” (Vodou song)
Soulouque, Faustin
Spain
Dominican Republic and
Haitian Revolution and
Napoleon and
U.S. war of 1898 vs.
Standard Fruit
Stewart, Duncan
Stoll, Steven
student activists
sugar
Sumera, Roséide
Sumner, Charles
swine flu
Sylvain, Georges
Syrian immigrants
taxes and tariffs
Temps, Le (Swiss newspaper)
tenant farmers (fermiers)
Time magazine
Tontons Makouts (National Security Volunteers)
Tortuga
trade
tragédie du roi Christophe, La (Césaire)
triangle trade
Trouillot, Hénock
Trouillot, Lyonel
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph
Trujillo, Rafael
Turner, Nat
Union Patriotique, L’
unions
United Fruit
United Nations
earthquake of 2010 and
military mission (MINUSTAH)
United States
aid and
Aristide and
Caribbean expansionism and
Dominican Republic and
Duvalier regimes and
early nineteenth century
early twentieth century
emigrants from
Firmin and
Haitian finances and
Haitian gold seized by
immigration to
late nineteenth century
loan of 1922
Magloire and
Môle and
Navassa and
political violence and
recognition by
rubber scheme and
Second Independence and
slavery in
trade with
zombies and
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
U.S. banks
U.S. Civil War
U.S. Congress
“Guano Islands” Act (1856)
Haiti recognized by
U.S. corporations
U.S.-Haiti convention of 1916
U.S. investment
U.S. Marines
U.S. National Archives
U.S. Navy
U.S. occupation
abuses under
anti-Vodou campaign
ban on foreign ownership ended by
constitution of 1918 and
education and
elections of 1915 and
elections of 1920 and
end of
forced labor and
Haitian leaders and
lead-up to and landing in
legacy of
martial law and
missionaries and
modernization and
negative stereotypes and
resistance to
Senate hearings on
U.S. Senate
U.S. South
U.S. State Department
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. trade
“Unknown Maroon” (statue)
uprisings and civil wars
of 1806–7
of 1843–44
of 1844–46 (Piquet)
of 1888
of 1902
of 1911–15
of 1917–29, vs. U.S. occupation
of 1985–86
of 2004
casualties in
costs of
cycle of, in nineteenth century
Duvalier and
“Varieties of the Human Species” (Buffon)
Vastey, Pompée-Valentin, Baron de
Vatican
recognition by
Vertières, Battle of (1803)
Vesey, Denmark
Viard, Félix
Vieux-Chauvet, Marie
vieux piquet, Le (Janvier)
Vincent, Sténio
Vodou
Acaau and
Bois Caïman ceremony and
Cacos and
campaigns vs.
Dessalines and
Duvaliers and
exoticized depictions of
Jeanty and
lakou system and
Price-Mars on
U.S. occupation and
Voltaire
voting rights
women and
Waller, Littleton W. T.
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, George
Washington, USS (U.S. warship)
Washington Post
water resources
Wells, Clark H.
West India Line
White King of La Gonave, The (Wirkus)
whites
citizenship and
independence and
property ownership and
revolt of 1791 and
U.S. occupation and
White Zombie (film)
Wilberforce, William
Wilentz, Amy
William, Dorcas Lee (Ouiliyanm)
Williams, Alexander S.
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Woodrow
Wirkus, Faustin
women
education and
foreign marriages and
uprisings and
U.S. occupation and
violence vs.
voting rights and
war of independence and
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
World Cup (1950)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World War I
World War II
WRUL (New York radio station)
yaws
yellow fever
Zaïre (Voltaire)
Zonbi (zombies)