Lecture Series #7
Haiti’s Quartet of Founding Fathers
Who were these Men & The Women beside them?
TOPICS TO BE PRESENTED
· Toussaint Louverture
o A Visionary, Market driven, Free Trade, Diplomatic Strategist
o Uniter of White, Black, Mixed Race & Spanish
o Understood investment and expertise
o Desired the colony to remain French but autonomous in rule
· Jean-Jacques Dessalines
o Field slave turned Mighty warrior – lethal and highly effective
o Limited diplomatic skills and despised planter class and Mulattos
o Struggled to jump start a war-torn economy
o Eventually murdered and dismembered by the mob – murder case unsolved.
· Henry Christophe
o General in the Revolutionary Army
o Felt he should have been Dessalines successor after his assassination
o Led to a civil war and founding of the Northern Kingdom
o Skilled Administrator, Agriculturally driven and builder
· Alexandre Pétion
o Pétion had never known slavery
o Became president of the South after the second civil war
o Believed in redistribution of land to the peasants who worked it
o Was of Pan-American belief in colonial deconstruction
· The Women behind the men:
o Suzanne Simone Baptiste Louverture
o Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicitée Bonheur Dessalines
o Queen Marie Louise Coidavid Christophe
o Marie-Madeleine "Joute" Lachenais
HALF HOUR PRESENTATION + (+20 minute Q&A Optional)
SPEAKER FEE:
$2,000, $1,000 Each additional Half Hour Segment (Choose)
Travel & Lodging additional as per location
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