15304: Bassiouni: Re: 15262: (Chamberlain) Haiti-Founding Father (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Nathan Bassiouni <dimeaux@mac.com>

Here is another example of an article with half truths and poor
research.  Santo Domingo is a city in the Dominican Republic and Saint
Domingue is Haiti's former name under France.  And people wonder why we
can't rely on AP for news anymore.

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 06:53  AM, Bob Corbett wrote:

>
> From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>
>
>    By MICHAEL NORTON
>
>    PORT-AU-PRINCE, 7 April (AP) -- He was born into slavery but rose to
> lead his people to freedom, laying the foundation for Haiti to become
> the
> world's first independent black republic.
>    With Haitians marking the 200th anniversary of Toussaint
> Louverture's
> death Monday,

......
> pronounced 2003 "The Year of Toussaint."
>    Francois Dominique Toussaint Louverture was born in 1743 on the
> Breda
> plantation in northern Haiti, then called Santo Domingo. His father had
> been enslaved in the part of West Africa now known as Benin and was
> shipped
> across the Atlantic in a slave ship.

......


 On Feb. 4, 1794, the slaves were
> emancipated, ending more than 250 years of bondage.
>    Toussaint became a French army general and governor of Santo
> Domingo. He
> fought successfully against English invaders and an insurrection of
> light-skinned counterrevolutionaries.


........


>    "In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Santo Domingo only the
> trunk
> of the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots, for they
> are
> numerous and deep," he said as he left.