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Maria Olofa and Gonzalo Mandinga, proud West Africans taken from their homelands, gathered a brotherhood of enslaved people around late 1521 on the outskirts of Santo Domingo. Knowing the land, the language of resistance, and each other’s courage, they seized tools and farm implements one dark morning, struck down small outposts of the colonists, and freed dozens of captives. Their uprising was not merely a raid but an act of collective defiance that declared—here, on this island, we will not bend our spirits.

For weeks their resistance unsettled the colonial order. Plantations and encomiendas felt the sting of rebellion as freed people sought refuge in hills and forests, joining with maroon communities that refused re-enslavement. The revolt forced Spanish authorities to confront the reality that their rule rested on stolen bodies and endless violence; they responded with brutal reprisals, capture parties, and new regulations intended to tighten the chains, but they could not erase the memory of those who rose.

That memory lives on for Haitians as proof that freedom was demanded long before independence: ancestors who fought, ran, and built new lives in resistance planted the first seeds of liberty on Hispaniola. Their courage echoes in every story of maroons and revolts that later shaped the Haitian Revolution; their example reminds a proud people that liberty has always been earned, defended, and celebrated.

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The Wolofs don't mess around! 👍🏿 👏🏿

The American puppet who was forced upon Haiti by the Americans in 1994 through a brutal intervention was removed by the Americans in 2004 after they got bored with him.

He was supposed to be their drug dealer, and he played that role for years. But then his schizophrenia got the best out of him and he got violent. His wife was utterly terrified of him. In 2003, in a blood rage episode, he decides to assassinate Amiot Metayer in Gonaives.

The Americans don't care as they see it as savages killing savages.

Then Jacques Kétant's nephew kidnaps someone he shouldn't have kidnapped in the elite Union School. Jacques Kétant was both Aristide's protegé and Unibank's. Then things get crazier, Kétant himself go down to the school and threathen the American staff.

Now the Americans are mad that some random slave (in their eyes) dares to speak up to the master, so they say let's remove our drug dealers with other drug dealers that are easier to control.

So they randomly pick a few people with no support who will be dependent on them and pretend that a popular revolution happened.

That's it. That's the whole story.

It's fucking Kétant's big ego that caused the downfall of Aristide. All the other players stayed in place with not much changing.

When the US rebelled in 1776, the UK recognized them as independent and stopped giving them British citizenship as soon as 1783, less than 10 years later.

On the other hand, Haiti's French generals (Dessalines, Pétion, etc) seceded in 1804 but France never legally recognized that move. And the 1825 didn't care much about those topics.

Boyer, born French, was the Haitian leader with the longest term (25 years!) and went on to enjoy a very comfortable retirement in France after he organized the French recognition of Haiti. Some people say that he had massive financial benefits thanks to that operation. But hey, money is money, get that bag buddy! 💲 💰 😎

• June 13: Haiti vs. Scotland — Boston Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts (9 p.m. ET)

• June 19: Haiti vs. Brazil — Philadelphia Stadium (9 p.m. ET)

• June 24: Haiti vs. Morocco — Atlanta Stadium (6 p.m. ET)

Are you going to watch the games or even better, to the games? ⚽ 🇭🇹

Général en chef

𝟭. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (noir)

Généraux de division

𝟮. Christophe (noir)

𝟯. Pétion (mulâtre)

𝟰. Clervaux (mulâtre)

𝟱. Geffrard (mulâtre)

𝟲. Vernet (mulâtre)

𝟳. Gabart (mulâtre)

Généraux de brigade

𝟴. P. Romain (noir)

𝟵. Étienne Gérin (mulâtre)

𝟭𝟬. François Capoix (noir)

𝟭𝟭. Jean-Louis François (noir)

𝟭𝟮. Férou (mulâtre)

𝟭𝟯. Daut (noir)

𝟭𝟰. Cangé (mulâtre)

𝟭𝟱. L. Bazelais (mulâtre)

𝟭𝟲. Magloire Ambroise (noir)

𝟭𝟳. J.-J. Herne (mulâtre)

𝟭𝟴. Toussaint Brave (noir)

𝟭𝟵. Yayou (noir)

Adjudants-généraux

𝟮𝟬. Bonnet (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟭. F. Papalier (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟮. Morelly (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟯. Chevalier (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟰. Marion (mulâtre)

Officiers de l'armée

𝟮𝟱. Magny (noir)

𝟮𝟲. Roux (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟳. B. Loret (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟴. Quéné (mulâtre)

𝟮𝟵. Macajoux (mulâtre)

𝟯𝟬. Dupuy (mulâtre)

𝟯𝟭. Carbonne (mulâtre)

𝟯𝟮. Diaquoi aîné (noir)

𝟯𝟯. Raphaël Malet (𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤)

𝟯𝟰. Derenoncourt (mulâtre)

Secrétaire

𝟯𝟱. Louis Boisrond-Tonnerre

[1] Raphaël Malet est néanmoins indiqué par Dantès Bellegarde comme étant « mulâtre ».

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