[act-ma] 1/13 FROM SUGAR & SLAVERY TO REVOLUTION: Haiti and Cuba

[Charlie Welch]

FROM SUGAR & SLAVERY TO REVOLUTION:
January 1, Haiti 1804 & Cuba 1959
The Haitian and Cuban revolutions are two of the greatest events in the
western hemisphere. Both social
upheavals inspired oppressed people and terrified their oppressors.

The Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave revolution in history.
Every slave master from Texas to
Maryland feared enslaved Africans rising up and breaking their chains, like
they did in Haiti. Haiti gave crucial aid
and an inspiring example to the liberator Simón Bolívar, who defeated
Spanish colonialism in much of South
America.

Since 1959, Wall Street’s nightmare has been the possibility of all Latin
America becoming “another Cuba.” Two
thousand Cuban soldiers died fighting alongside their African comrades in
defeating the armies of apartheid
South Africa. The initial assistance to newly independent Angola was called
“Operation Carlota.” It was named
after an enslaved African woman who led a Cuban revolt against Spanish
colonial rule. After being captured she
was torn apart by horses.

Cuba and Haiti are neighbors. The distance between them is less than a
hundred miles across the Caribbean
Windward Passage. While the Haitian Revolution began in 1791, the Cuban
revolutionaries entered Havana in
1959. This historical distance of more than 160 years has many stories of
struggles to tell and sign about it.

When: January 13
Time 7-10pm
Where: Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St.
Boston Ma 0216
Refreshments will be provided Suggested donation: $5
No one will be turned
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