this is the first ten minutes of a 6 part program about white haitians and there history
YouTube - white Haitians/Forgotten faces (Part 1)
YouTube - white Haitians/Forgotten faces (Part 1)
Good documentary... We know most of Cap Haitien?s whites... I mostly agree with the analysis...
159 views and not a single person says anything in an internet board where any thread, regardless how mundane, how irrational, how unimportant it may be, receives at least one post after 60 views.
Oh well...
I managed to see the documentary in the its entirety and it was very interesting.
Some of the points I got from the vids:
1. Dessalines had not ordered the butchering/explusion of all whites, he did made an exception for those who had the 'know how' for the sake of keeping the Haitian economy running. Doctors, merchants, engineers, etc were spared. Hence, while Haiti lost most of its whites during the revolution, a tiny number remained to run the economic show along with the mulattoes.
2. The Duvalier years were harsh on the white minority. First, the Duvalier excluded the business community (much of it apparently was white) from the political process. Anyone that didn't heed to that exclusion was either killed (along with the family) or exiled. Duvalier, Jr. (Baby Doc) was worst since he was hardly educated and pretty much help destroyed much of the business class his father had not done so by the time of his death. Needless to say, during the Duvalier Haiti saw a new exodus among its white minority and along with them, apparently, went the brains of the ins and out of the Haitian economy since they owned/controlled so much of it.
3. From the video it appears that the economic decline of Haiti was, as has been debated in the forum, self-inflicted and, at the same time, imposed from abroad. The self-inflicted part was mostly of a political nature driven by the greed for power and, perhaps, racism and the desire for vengeance due to the history of whites, blacks and mulattoes in Haiti. With the departure of a large segment of the white minority, whom controlled much of the economy, so too went away Haiti's economic stability and relative prosperity.
The real reason for Haiti's demise appears to be a severe brain drain driven by racism, a desire for revenge, power, and outside influences.
It appears the documentary was done prior to the earthquake, so who knows what the situation might be now concerning this minority, their economic aspirations for Haiti, so on and so forth.
I recall reading that a group of Napoleon's soldiers were Polish transcrips, and that some of these deserted and stayed in Haiti.
Good documentary... We know most of Cap Haitien?s whites... I mostly agree with the analysis...
Un dimanche ? Malfini, j'imagine...i dont know if i have met you i live in cap haitien , but thank you i am glad you liked it
Doc. starts off on a weak note.
Thought it would only be right to talk about the history of Santo Domingo..and then St. Dominique. Would give the story context and detail exactly what kind of "relationship" existed between the blans, gens de coleur and the Africans.
His first mention of history is about the Haitian Revolution and whether or not Dessalines ordered the deaths of certain people.
Consciously omitting the savagery committed by the whites...on the enslaved people and what kind of natural resentment and hatred that human beings would have for those who put them in chains. I mean even relative to the other systems of slavery in the "new world", the French system in St. Dom. was HARSH. St. Dom. wasn't the most prosperous colony in the Americas by accident. It was especially brutal with extreme mortality and turnover rate for the enslaved people.
If you're gonna tell a story, tell the FULL story.
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If you're gonna tell a story, tell the FULL story.
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Maybe this should be discussed in a separate thread but speaking of the whole story I certainly don't think it's acceptable nor understandable to slaughter innocent women and children and men who had nothing to do with the slavery.
Undoubtedly true, but THIS thread is about a DOCUMENTARY ON WHITE HAITIANS. Let's please stick to the subject and not see it dissolve into race issues.
Muchas gracias.
AE
I guess there are lots of white members and/or sponsors of this site.....and their sensibilities must be defended....regardless of what the ACTUAL topic is.
Just pointing out an obvious flaw in the opening part of this RACE specific documentary.I think an objective person would notice that after the narrated words "they (white Haitians) are an indelible fixture in the social history of Haiti from 300 years ago to today"....a brief history of these whites ...from 1710 to 2010 should have been included. Even as brief as detailing which countries or regions in Europe they are from.
I guess there are lots of white members and/or sponsors of this site.....and their sensibilities must be defended....regardless of what the ACTUAL topic is.......even when it's a documentary about a minority RACIAL group in Haiti.
I respect that.....but this is no place for me.
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Just pointing out an obvious flaw in the opening part of this RACE specific documentary.I think an objective person would notice that after the narrated words "they (white Haitians) are an indelible fixture in the social history of Haiti from 300 years ago to today"....a brief history of these whites ...from 1710 to 2010 should have been included. Even as brief as detailing which countries or regions in Europe they are from.
I guess there are lots of white members and/or sponsors of this site.....and their sensibilities must be defended....regardless of what the ACTUAL topic is.......even when it's a documentary about a minority RACIAL group in Haiti.
I respect that.....but this is no place for me.
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