excerpt - Over centuries, competing stories about the country have become a way of fighting over much larger questions about freedom, racism and what the future of the societies of the Americas and the world will look like. For many decades after the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, the country’s reputation as the cradle of one of the world’s largest and most successful antislavery uprisings created anxiety and fear among enslavers throughout the Americas.
The abolitionist John Brown considered the Haitian Revolution an inspiration and an example, and the Haitian government carried out a state funeral in his honor in the National Cathedral, complete with an empty casket, after he was executed in 1859. For Americans who also had a vision of a future based on freedom and equality, Haiti was, in the words of Frederick Douglass, “bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh.” full - *https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/opinion/haitis-original-sin-freedom.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/opinion/haitis-original-sin-freedom.html>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41607): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41607 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119051982/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
