Yesterday, GRODYSH Int'l. Founder and President, Claude Reginald Jean, and Vice-President Leslie Person Hobbs visited the high school students at Delphi Academy of Florida, and presented this important information about the history of Haiti. The kids were enthralled and asked many great questions.
Queen Isabelle the Catholic and King Ferdinand of Spain,
convinced by Christopher Columbus,
decided in 1492 to embark upon what would become the
greatest genocide ever perpetrated on human beings in history.
America, inhabited by the descendants of Atlantis, an
advanced civilization, was invaded by the
Europeans, who later taught us that they discovered it. Was
it a discovery? According to Dr. Alix
Balain, disciple of the greatest-known anthropologist Dr.
Tcheck Antadiopp, Columbus’ three-
vessel expedition team first touched the Floridian shores in
the beginning of November after three
months, heading West from Europe. He ordered them to
continue southeast where some days later
they approached the Bahamas Islands. Tired of such a long
trip crossing over the Atlantic Ocean, they
rested there for 11 days, but Columbus told them, “It is not
the Island yet.” They then re-embarked
to
navigate further southeast toward the beautiful island of
Haiti.
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He landed in the northwest
part of Haiti close to a small native village which he named after Mole
St Nicolas.
He planted the Catholic cross and the flag of Spain.
You may have heard that Columbus was trying to reach India, and that in order
to avoid the dangerous
Persian and Mesopotamian deserts, he traveled other way
around via the West, the reason why we are
still wrongly called West Indians. This is false data. He was going to Amemex, ancient name of this
continent. Haiti was a well-organized island divided into five
Cacicas or kingdoms governed by Cacics
or kings.
The most popular was the marvelous Queen Anacaona.
The ethnicities of the Atlantes living in peace on the
island of Haiti, also called Quisqueya or Boyo,
were Caribbeans and Tainos.
Christopher C. was so amazed by the beauty of the Island,
and he decided to call it Hispanola, meaning
little Spain. The
hospitality of the Natives didn't capture the interest of the Europeans as much
as their
gold possession. And
the natives had to discover hatred, treason, hypocrisy, assassination, greed,
thieves, slavery, genocide, prostitution, rape, aberrated
sexual behavior, and evangelism... Forced
into slavery the Natives couldn't resist and were rapidly
decimated. Then the odious trade of black
Africans started in order to replace the Natives of the
land, as suggested by an infamous Catholic priest
named Las Casas.
The enormous fortune
accumulated by Spain attracted the other European countries like
magnets,
hungry for blood and
gold. France engaged in numerous fights with Spain to finally reach years later
an agreement (Riswick treaty) to own the third
western part of the Island, the actual Haiti. The two
remaining thirds are now the Dominican
Republic. As a pearl thrown in the Caribbean Sea by the
Gods, the island of Haiti was also described by
C. C. as the “Pearl of the Antilles.” The Africans, stronger
physically, resisted the inhuman treatment
and infused the land with their blood and bitter sweat to
cover the responsibility of supporting 2/3 of
the French economy. They proudly called Haiti “the Grenier
(pantry) de la France”. Sugar from sugar
cane (equivalent to petroleum these days) was the main
production of Haiti and 80% of the world
production came from Saint Domingue the new name of Haiti.
Besides sugar, St Domingue produced
cotton, rice, corn,
plantain, banana, mango, coconut, indigo, an infinite variety of tropical
fruits,
vegetables and gold. This economy based on human labor was
very demanding. More and more
African villages were destroyed and the people were
considered animals to justify the sin of deporting
them from their continent on small boats called “Negrier”
over the ocean to America.
Haiti, particularly known for its fertility, was the hardest
place to be a slave. The French became expert
in dehumanizing the
black Africans. The nobles, kings,
queens, princes and princesses were brought
to “training camps”, similar to concentration camps, based in Port-au-Prince, read here Port of
Princes,
to learn they were animals, ugly, dumb, evil, dirty,
uncivilized... before being sold and attached to a
farm. In the 18th century, the ideas of freedom,
liberty, Human Rights... became very popular in Europe
and in every living room occupied the conversations and
discussions. The house slave, different from
the farm slave, was well dressed, clean, serving the meals
and the tea, driving the coach and in a
privileged position to learn about human rights. He wasn't
considered to be a threat because he had
been declared an animal by the master, more precisely 2/3rd
of a human.
In the 13 colonies that would become the U.S. this human
rights movement, added to the arbitrary trade
and tax system
imposed on the colonies by the mother country, inspired the British colonists to revolt
and separate from the crown of Great Britain.
We must understand here that George Washington and his
associates had always been slave masters.
The final battle that vanquished any hope the British had of
re-conquering the newly independent
country, the 13 colonies,
was an incredible defeat inflicted by the 600 Haitian soldiers enrolled
under
the French command on the field of Savanna, Georgia.
This freedom was for the American British from Great
Britain, but Natives and mainly blacks from
Africa remained in abject slavery. A slave and voodoo
priest, who was found hiding a book and
was
punished and sent to be sold in St. Domingue was named
Bookman. Once he arrived, he escaped and
joined the small group of slaves called Maroons hiding in
the mountains.
Rapidly he became their
leader thanks to his education and ability to read. He
reunited thousands one night for a commitment
ceremony known as “ceremony of Bwa Ka Iman” where the slaves
vowed to commit themselves to
freedom. He started a brutal revolution against the French
masters that ended in the loss of life for
many French, black slaves and for himself. The taste of
liberty on their tongues, it became impossible
to keep the system running as the French government had lost
their control over many different areas of
St Domingue. Great
Britain occupied the northwest and Spain advanced on part of the East.
Toussaint Breda, coach driver of Bayon Liberta, and natural
medicine specialist who replaced
Bookman after a short period of resistance headed by
Biassou, learned to read a the age of 42.
He was
denied the command of the island by the French, so he
supported the Spanish and conquered the
majority of the land for them. Betrayed by them, he
negotiated his return with the French and became
at age 52 General Governor of the Colony for life by
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France. He was
called Toussaint Louverture because of his ability to create
openings through enemy lines (Ouverture
means opening in French).
Peace returned and production restarted. Understanding that
the management of the colony was asking
for more adapted regulations, he ordered all slaves to be
freed and wrote the Constitution of 1802 for St
Domingue, sent it to France for approval, and signed it:
“From the first of the Blacks to the first of the
whites,” with a P.S. note
saying that it was already in application. Immediately after receiving
this
document, Napoleon sent 22,000 troops headed by his young
brother-in-law General Leclerc, who was
the husband of his sister Pauline.
He was accompanied by Napoleon’s best general Rochambeau to arrest Toussaint,
deport him to
France and reestablish slavery.
Toussaint died from cold weather and malnutrition in Fort de
Joux, a prison in the freezing mountains
of Jura in France one year later, while one of his generals,
the famous Dessalines, became head of the
revolution, created the Haitian Flag blue and red, taking
off the white of the French Flag.
He re-claimed the Native name of Haiti for the new country
to be created. The Toussaint document was
the manifest of what years later the crown of Great Britain
would adopt and call commonwealth.
So actually Toussaint Louverture is considered to be the
father of the Commonwealth.
Napoleon later, after his destitution and while in prison in
the St Helen Island, in his Memoir would
express his regrets for stupidly rejected Toussaint's
proposal: “this little nigger was right”.
Dessalines conducted the revolution, the unprecedented, the
only successful slave revolution in human
history, revealing to the world the power, the bravery and
determination of former African slaves who
fought better then human beings, greater than Spartan
warriors... as explosive as the gods.
Napoleon's brother- in-law died and the French army was
dismantled. In an incredible display of
respect and admiration, General Rochambeau, in the middle of
the ultimate fight, raised the white flag
to stop the fighting and presented military honor and
distinction to the incredible bravery of this rebel
commander Capois Lamort.
Rochambeau was rescued at sea by a British vessel while
fleeing the island.
On January 1, 1804, Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaimed Haiti
the first Black Republic in
the world and mother of Liberty. He sent a letter to
Napoleon saying:” Liberty is a woman, and she is
now a citizen of
Haiti”. In the middle of a world of powerful slave masters, Dessalines created
sanity,
Liberty, Freedom, Human Rights. As the greatest humanitarian who has lived on
this planet he wrote,
“Anyone running away from slavery and misery, once he
reaches the soil of Haiti, becomes a free man
and a Haitian citizen. Any vessel which brings him will be
paid for the transportation and this country
will go to war to defend his right to be a free man”.
Immediately Haiti became a threat for the world order and
slavery-based economy. A coalition was
formed between France, the United States, Spain and Great
Britain. Haiti was isolated and it was
made
almost impossible for us to exchange our production with
other countries.
In addition, we have
been forced to pay $21 billion in gold for damages to France. A wide defamatory
campaign was spread to dissuade the slaves in America from
following Haiti’s bad example.
Alexander Petion, Father of Pan-Americanism, helped
revolutionaries Miranda and Simon Bolivar by
giving them money, ammunition, weapons and soldiers to free countries
of Latin and South America.
Petion also created the Flag for Venezuela in a South East
town of Haiti called Jacmel.
It was 60 years later under the government of Abraham
Lincoln that the USA recognized Haiti's
independence. It took Haiti 100 years to pay off the debt of
independence to France, wasting all its
resources instead of
spending on building infrastructure and education... So until now the campaign
continues even though Haiti does not represent a threat to
anybody any more.
What has never changed, Haiti remains the most beautiful
island of the Caribbean.
An overview of Haiti
Prepared and presented by Claude Reginald Jean
Founder and President of GRODYSH Int'l. Inc. - the Future of Haiti Organization
at Delphi Academy in Clearwater
On March 1st, 2013
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