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HAITI
1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
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Boisrond Tonerre |
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PA1092 |
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24" x 36" |
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Oil on canvas |
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2003 |
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$1,200.00 |
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1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
Hero
represented in this painting:
PROCLAMATION
OF INDEPENDENCE
(JANUARY 1ST, 1804)
[click here
for French Version]
Before January 1st, 1804
After rewarding all the soldiers of Haut du Cap, Dessalines scattered them to their respective entrenchment, where the people celebrated their arrival; however they were all supposed to be present at the general meeting in Gonaives on January 1st 1804. Dessalines wanted to celebrate the proclamation of the Independence with an official ceremony. In the meantime, to show the necessity to sever the ties with France, he gave the island its former Indian name: Haiti.
On December 31, the officers met in Gonaives, at Dessalines’s place, to listen to the Independence Act and the Proclamation of the general being read to the population of Haiti. Dessalines assigned the writing of these documents to Chareron the oldest of his assistants. Chareron, having lived in the United States for a long time, drew his inspiration from the declaration of Independence of the American Congress and wrote an abstract document of legal pace. It reflected no life, no warmth. It contained none of the violent feelings that move the soul. Everyone listened in gloomy silence. Boirond-Tonerre suddenly interrupted the reading: "This is in no harmony with our current feelings. To write the Independence Act we need a white man’s skin for parchment, his skull for inkstand, his blood for ink and a bayonet for pen! ".
Dessalines jumped up and said: "Boirond, I assign you the task of expressing my feelings about the white men to the people. All through the night, the immortal writer of the independence Act scribbled feverishly but at dawn, fatigue overtook him and he fell asleep at his worktable. They had all the trouble in the world to wake him up for the ceremony.
(History of Haiti by J-C Dorsainville page 136 to 138, Henri Deschamps Publishing House)
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1804 is the year of Independence in Haiti.
We are the first Black Independent Republic.
Hero
represented in this painting:
PROCLAMATION
DE L'INDPENDENCE
(1ER JANVIER 1804)
[click
here for English Version]
Avant le 1er Janvier 1804
Dessalines, apres avoir recompense tous les combattants du Haut du Cap, les dispersa dans leurs cantonnements respectifs, ou le peuple les feta; mais tous devaient etres presents a un rendez -vous general, aux Gonaive, le 1er Janvier 1804. Dessalines voulait, par une ceremonie solennelle, celebrer la proclamation de l'Independence; en attendant, pour bien montrer qu'il fallait oublier la France, il redonna a Saint Domingue son nom indien d'Haiti.
Le 31 decembre, les generaux se reunirent aux Gonaives, chez Dessalines, pour entendre lire l'Acte de L'Independence et la Proclamation du general en chef a la population d'Haiti. Dessalines a confie le soin de rediger ces deux documents a Chareron, le plus ancien de ses secretaires. Chareron, ayant longtemps vecu aux Etas-Unis, s'etait inspire de la declaration d'Independence de Congres americain et avait compose quelque chose d'abstrait, d'allure juridique, ans vie ni chaleur et ou rien ne passaient des sentiments violents qui emeuvent les ames. Ce fut dans un morne et lourd silence qu'on en ecouta la lecture. Boirond-Tonerre intervint brusquement: "Tout ce qui a ete fait n'est pas en harmonie avec nos dispositions actuelles: Pour dresser l'Acte de L'Independence, il nous faut la peau d'un blanc pour parchemin, son crane pour ecritoire, son sang pour encre et une baionnette pour plume!".
D'un bond, Dessalines se dresse: "Boirond, je te charge d'exprimer au peuple mes sentiments a l'egard des blancs." Toute la nuit, l'immortel redacteur de l'Acte de L'independence ecrivit avec fievre, amis a l'aube, vaincu par la fatigue, il s'endormi a sa table de travail, et si profondement qu'on eut toutes les peines du monde a le reveiller pour la ceremonie.
(Histoire d'Haiti par J-C Dorsainville page 136 a 138, edition Henri Deschamps)
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