Haitian people remember King Christophe

Port-au-Prince, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) The people of Haiti remember King Henri Christophe, one of the most prominent figures of the slave revolution, on the 204th anniversary of his death. Christophe is considered in Haiti a visionary, a genius driven by an ideal of greatness that left its mark on the history of mankind and the Caribbean.

October 8, 2024
11:09

Henri I was born in Saint Kitts and Nevis and was taken as a slave to Saint Domingue, present-day Haiti, to work in the services sector.

Several historians agree that as a teenager he was a member of the Volunteer Hunter Battalion and fought against the British for the independence of the United States.

Returning to the Caribbean country, he distinguished himself in the Rebellion of 1791, known as Bois Cayman, and in 1802 he was promoted to the post of general.

Two years after the revolutionary triumph in Haiti, he took control of the northern region, and in 1811 he turned it into a kingdom and proclaimed himself its monarch.

Christophe is responsible for the construction of the National Historical Park-Citadelle, Palace of Sans Souci, and the Ramiers buildings, declared World Heritage Sites. Although the legacy was tarnished by the hundreds or thousands of people who died to erect the monumental works.

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