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    El reino de este mundo

    The Kingdom of This World


    Alejo Carpentier
    Haiti

    Island of Hispaniola
    The name Haiti, or Ayiti in Creole,
    is from the Taino-Arawak peoples,
    meaning “mountainous country.”
    Presidential palace before
    Presidential palace now
    Contemporary Haiti

    Before
    tremendous poverty
    cont.
    Port –au-Prince 2010
    Port au Prince today [2010]
    Tent city
    massive deforestation
    The beginnings of tourism
    http://www.buzzingstock.in/fwd/index.php?url
    =http://www.htmontana.com/

    HOTEL MONTANA
    Hotel Montana
    http://www.haititourisme.com/
    TAINOS
    Generally hospitable, relatively
    advanced civilization.

    When the Spaniards arrived there were


    3-4,000,000 inhabitants
    1492—Columbus claimed
    the island of Hispaniola for
    Spain. The New World’s 1st
    settlement, La Navidad, was
    built on Haiti’s north coast.
    The French & St. Domingue
    slavery
    Blancs

    Affranchis

    African slaves
    Declaration of the Rights of
    Man
    marronage
    François Mackandal
    houngan
    Boukman
    Leger Felicite Sonthonax
    Louis XVI
    Toussaint Louverture
    General Dessalines
    General Henri Christophe
    Sans Souci
    Petion
    Jean Pierre Boyer

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