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The Three Stages to Haiti’s Chronic Crisis

Dessalines’ 1804-Precepts of Caution
2024-05-18 11:00:00 2024-05-18 12:00:00 America/New_York The Three Stages to Haiti’s Chronic Crisis Professor Kersuze Simeon-Jones walks us through Jean-Jaques Dessalines’ 1804 speech that forewarned Haiti's measures, precautions, and responsibilities necessary to maintain freedom. Hiawassee Branch - Hiawassee - Meeting Room

Saturday, May 18
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-05-18 11:00:00 2024-05-18 12:00:00 America/New_York The Three Stages to Haiti’s Chronic Crisis Professor Kersuze Simeon-Jones walks us through Jean-Jaques Dessalines’ 1804 speech that forewarned Haiti's measures, precautions, and responsibilities necessary to maintain freedom. Hiawassee Branch - Hiawassee - Meeting Room

Hiawassee Branch

Hiawassee - Meeting Room

Professor Kersuze Simeon-Jones walks us through Jean-Jaques Dessalines’ 1804 speech that forewarned Haiti's measures, precautions, and responsibilities necessary to maintain freedom.

The talk will examine the words spoken by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, in 1804. His speech forewarned the nation-state of the measures, precautions, and the responsibilities that were necessary to maintain freedom. We will decipher Dessalines’ precepts within the context of Haiti’s national and leadership history. May 18th, 2024, marks 220 years since the creation of the Haitian Flag, the symbol of a nation that emerged from three centuries of the chattel slavery system. Lamentably, 2024 exposes a chronic crisis that has been in the making for over 200 years and has reached the level of destructive mayhem. What have been the compounded factors? What will be the measures to repair Haiti for the benefit of the people in Haiti?

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Private - Internal Event | History - Culture - Genealogy |

TAGS: | ipevents | bb-library-events |

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Hiawassee Branch began as a bookmobile station in 1962 and was first known as the Pine Hills Library. In later moves the branch became the West Colonial branch and in March 2000, Hiawassee. In early 2010, the Hiawassee Branch moved to a new home near the corner of Hiawassee Road and West Colonial Drive in the Highland Lakes shopping plaza.

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