Phillip Thomas Tucker - Marie-Jeanne: Inspirational Freedom Fighter and Heroine of the Haitian Revolution

Marie-Jeanne

Inspirational Freedom Fighter and

Heroine of the Haitian Revolution

New Look Haitian Revolutionary Women Series

Volume II

Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D.

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The Haitian Revolution wasone of the most remarkable developments in world history. This lengthy strugglehas now been widely recognized and appreciated by modern historians that theformer slaves of the only successful slave revolt in history changed the worldby leading the way in the righteous crusade that was the most anti-slavery,anti-racism, and anti-colonialism movement in history. For such reasons, therevolt of the black underclass and the Haitian Revolution was a trulyearth-shaking event of extreme importance and global significance on multiplelevels.

Of all thestruggles for liberty in the Americas, including the American Revolution, theHaitian Revolution was distinguished by an unprecedented degree of massmobilization among the common people, who had long endured miserable lives asslaves on more than 7,000 sugar cane and coffee plantations, of todaysRepublic of Haiti.

But in asupreme irony, a large percentage of these revolutionaries and freedom fightersof African descent have not been acknowledged for having made any revolutionarycontributions whatsoeverthe women of Haiti. Indeed, they have been seldom, ifever, mentioned at all, even in some of the most respected books about theHaitian Revolution and Haitian War of Independence. However, these women, whohave become the most ignored and forgotten of all revolutionaries and freedomfighters in the annals of the Haitian Revolution, represented a large percentageof the slave population, and they took charge of not only their lives anddestinies, but also the fate of their country during the struggle for liberty.

However, theseremarkable revolutionary women were the ones who did not leave behind their namesin part because the Haitian Revolution has long been presented from a male, ormasculine, perspective that has left no room for the dramatic story ofrevolutionary womenthe victims of stereotyping and a silencing in thehistorical record. But, in fact, they played more important roles and in largernumbers than generally appreciated, including even by leading historians. Largenumbers of these common women of todays Haiti were true heroines of therevolutionary struggle from beginning to end.

In the end, theHaitian Revolution, which was most distinguished by having been a moral crusadefor racial equality and its sweeping global repercussions that heralded a newday for people of African descent, would not have been won without the heroic sacrificesand contributions of thousands of these revolutionary women, who helped to leadthe way to the creation of the first black nation, the Republic of Haiti.

As a sad fatewould have it, the sheer beauty of the French colony of St. Domingue (todays Haiti)was obscured by the surreal horrors of more than a dozen years of war thatconsumed this tropical mountainous land precisely because of its richness andpotentialgreat natural abundance and beauty coexisting with almostunbelievable examples of mans inhumanity to his fellow man on an unprecedentedscale during one of the most brutal conflicts in history. And this monumentaldisaster that befell an entire people was primarily the result of race ratherthan the usual factors of different religions, politics, and ideologies thathave historically caused conflicts around the world.

Ironically,Napoleon Bonapartes French invaders of 1802 and 1803 were Catholics like St.Domingues black and mulatto Creoles, both ex-slaves and free blacks, whom theyfought against with a savagery seldom seen. What most of all separated theseopponents more than anything else was skin color and not religion like in themost bitter conflicts throughout history, because they worshipped the same Godand read the same Holy Bible.

Today,relatively few people outside of the Republic of Haiti have little idea aboutthe supreme importance of the greatest of all revolutions during the Age ofEnlightenment and Age of Democratic Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution. Evenfewer people today beyond Haitis borders are aware of the inspirationalcontributions made by one of the true heroines of the Haitian War ofIndependence, Marie-Jeanne Lamartinire. She was a fiery revolutionary andfreedom fighter on the battlefield, where she earned distinction for courageand audacity during the struggle for liberty.

Marie-Jeanne,a young woman of white and black heritage, rose magnificently to the challengeof the legendary defense of the strategic fortbasically, this was the dramaticstory of Haitis Alamo because it was a heroic defense that long defied theodds and the repeated attacks of Napoleons finest troops in March 1802duringthe Battle of Crte--Pierrot. Here, in defense of this hilltop fortress thatoverlooked the wide valley of the Artibonite River, Marie-Jeanne fought like abrown Jeanne d Arc!