Migrations and Reparations in the Time of Revolutions

Title

Migrations and Reparations in the Time of Revolutions

Subject

John Baptist Toussant Corneau
French Immigration
Haitian Revolution

Description

This collection puts the letter to John Baptist Toussant Corneau's family from Banque Hottinguer about the indemnity paid to them by the country of Haiti in the context of other modern Haitian images.

Files include the aforementioned letter, various images of riots and protests, a depiction of the Haitian Revolution, and an overhead view of a Haitian city.

Creator

Hottinguer & Co., et al.

Source

Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection

Publisher

Hottinguer & Co.

Date

1788-1804; 1841; 2010-2019

Contributor

Hottinguer & Co.

Rights

This electronic resource is made available by the University of Texas Libraries solely for the purposes of research, teaching and private study.

This material is made available for education and research purposes only. The creator of this exhibit does not own the rights for these items; it cannot grant or deny permission to use this material. Copyright law protects unpublished as well as published materials. It is your responsibility to determine the rights status and secure whatever permission may be needed for the use of any item. Due to the nature of archival collections, rights information may be incomplete or out of date. We welcome updates or corrections. Upon request, we'll remove material from public view while we address a rights issue.

Relation

Haiti. a. Cottinguer & Co., Paris, to J.R.T. Corneau, Esq., Miscellaneous Manuscript No. 88, Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

Language

English and sparse French

Type

Still images
Sound
Text

Coverage

Haiti, 1788-1804, 2010-2019
Paris, 1841

Collection Items

Reparation Letter to the Corneau Family
This is a letter from the French government to the Corneau family detailing the total amount of reparations the family has inherited from Haiti for unspecified damages during the Haitian Revolution.

Paris. August 21. 1841.
J. R. T. Corneau…

"A country in lockdown"
Photograph of a contemporary Haitian protest taken by Rebecca Blackwell for The Nation Magazine.

Street Demonstration in Haiti
A photograph of a modern street demonstration/protest in Haiti involving the use of fire and pyrotechnics. Original description: "Flaming tires seen early on February 11, 2019, in the streets of Hinche in the center of Haiti."

Overlooking the Streets of Cap Haitien, Haiti
An overhead photograph of Cap Haitien, Haiti, depicting close living quarters and stacked, makeshift housing.

A Scene from the Haitian Revolution
Lithograph depicting the armies in the Haitian Revolution.

Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot
Depiction of the Haitian Revolution between Haitians and French soldiers.

Eighteenth-Century Map of Hispañola
A map of the territories now known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic from the late 1700s.

Le navire négrier La Reine de Podor
A depiction of a ship carrying slaves to be sold abroad.
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