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Marlene L. Daut, Author of "The First and Last King of Haiti" in Dialogue with Kaiama Glover.
Wed, Mar 26
|Haiti Cultural Exchange
Join us to celebrate the publication of "The First and Last King of Haiti;" a riveting story of not only geopolitical clashes on a grand scale but also of friendship and loyalty, treachery and betrayal, heroism and strife in an era of revolutionary upheaval.
Time & Location
Mar 26, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Haiti Cultural Exchange, 558 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
About the Event
About the Book: The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over: in The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still controversial enigma that he was.
Slave, revolutionary, traitor, king, and suicide, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to gain their freedom from France. Yet in an incredible twist of fate, Christophe ended up fighting with Napoleon’s forces against the very enslaved men and women he had once fought alongside.…
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