1821-1912: "HAITI HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS" Part II: Following the Haiti documents collection Part I, offered and sold in our last auction, we have the pleasure to offer this second part consisting of more than 40 documents from the first free Latin American state of Haiti, created on January 1, 1804 in the former French colony of Saint-Domingue. The documents are from presidents and generals or officials, mostly with corresponding letterheads and original signatures. The signatories were predominantly former slaves who founded the independent state and now held high government positions. There are letters from/signed by Presidents as Jean-Pierre Boyer (1818-1843), Michel Domingue (1874-1876), Cincinnatus Leconte (1911-1912) and Oreste Zamor (1914), also documents from/signed by Generals Luis Defrème, Jean-Babtiste Fabre, Jérôme M. Borgella, Mompoint Jeune, Aureline Jeanty, A. Jean, Joseph Larrieux, Hériston Hérissé, Esme Parret, Prud'homme Lecorps, Constantin Ancion, Prosper Fanre, Calix Blaise, Cheramene Lerebours, Louis Tanis Aine, L-J- Malary, Annibal V. Hilaire, Mentor Nicolas, Stéphan Peralte and others, plus few specials like document from the General Consulte of Haiti in Amsterdam (1929). A very unusual collection full of Haiti history, and unique in this form.
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