H-Haiti Celebrating the Battle of Vertières. Art Exhibit & Lecture at CUNY-HSI

Discussion published by Marlene Daut on Thursday, November 1, 2018

The CUNY Haitian Studies Institute, the newest CUNY wide research unit housed at Brooklyn College, is organizing the very first Haitian art exhibition on campus entitled “The Universal Dimension of Haitian Culture: History and Politics of Memory” at the Brooklyn College Library. Nine Haitian artists will be here in person to present their paintings. This event will hold Haitian artists ranging across genders and age groups. Each artwork will be of different styles and unique to their own holding as a common point the essence of their homeland, Haiti. Following this event professor Pierre Buteau, a well known Haitian historian, will be flying from Haiti to hold a lecture on “The National and International Dimensions of the Haitian Revolution”. This event will celebrate the Battle of Vertières which occurred on November 18th of 1803. It was the final battle from which the members of the Indigenous Army of Saint Domingue defeated Napoleon’s French expedition, who arrived to re-enslave them after they were set free. It led Haiti to become the first black nation to win their independence from colonizers by force. News of this movement consequently rippled across the western hemisphere and influenced the fights for the liberation of slaves in many colonies and plantations.

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Citation: Marlene Daut. Celebrating the Battle of Vertières. Art Exhibit & Lecture at CUNY-HSI. H-Haiti. 11-01-2018. https://networks.h-net.org/node/116721/discussions/2984287/celebrating-battle-verti%C3%A8res-art-exhibit-lecture-cuny-hsi Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1