El reino de este mundo

The Kingdom of This World

Alejo Carpentier
 Island of Hispaniola
Haiti
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/i
ndex.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 1 st

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
Emperor [self-appointed] 1804-06. Born a slave,
served under Toussaint L’Ouverture. Won
independence in 1804, named governor for life,
then crowned self emperor [like Napoleon]. He
instituted forced labor, was ambushed, killed and
succeeded by Henri Christophe.
General Henri Christophe
Sans Souci
 San Souci, history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tOwBMOKPPVo

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/h
enri_christophe.htm

http://www.traveladventures.org/
continents/southamerica/palace-
sans-souci-milot01.shtml
Petion
Jean Pierre Boyer
Abraham Brunias
Brunias
Paul et Virginie
conch shell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJoqqKyasNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjdyuQgyylc&feature=related

CALL AND RESPONSE

racial classifications
Eur. m + Indig. f = mestizo
Eur. m + mestizo f = castizo
Eur. f + castizo m = espomolo
Eur + African = mulatto
Euro + mulatto = moor
Euro m + moor f = albino
Euro m + albino f = throwback
Throw m + Indig f = wolf
wolf m + Ind. f = zambiago
zambiago m + Ind. f = cambujo
cambujo m + mulatto f = borquino 16 in Mexico; 64 in Brazil
Masons
Pauline Bonaparte
 ABOLITION IN THE AMERICAS:
1792: Slavery abolished in France but not in colonies
1793: Sothanax abolished slavery in Haiti
1802: Napoleon reestablished slavery
1807: Great Britain prohibits the slave trade
1808: US prohibits importation of African slaves
1815: Napoleon abolished slave trade for France
1824: Abolition of slavery in Central American
1826: Abolition in northern Brazil
1827: Abolition in NY
1848: Abolition in French and West Indian colonies
1853: Abolition in Argentina
1854: Abolition in Venezuela
1863: Emancipation Proclamation; Abolition in Dutch colonies
1865: Abolition in US
1873: Abolition in Puerto Rico
1880-86: Abolition in Cuba
1888: Abolition in Brazil
La Citadelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=r5TRMY--
lOY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=bqcvVPvmz6k&feature=relate
d

Serra Pelada—gold mine in Brazil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=1SOCFPMGEak&feature=related
San Souci
Americanized saints and
virgens