{"id":46296,"date":"2016-03-30T14:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46296"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:50:02","slug":"haiti-the-archive-and-the-historical-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46296","title":{"rendered":"Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

African American Intellectual History Society<\/a>
\n2016-03-13<\/p>\n

Brandon Bryd<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History
\nMississippi State University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJohn Mercer Langston<\/a><\/strong>
\nMathew Brady<\/a> – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.pnp\/cwpbh.00690<\/a>. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston<\/a> laid on his bed on board the British steamer \u201cAndes.\u201d He was sea-sick<\/a> and could not leave his cabin. Again. The new U.S. minister and consul general to Haiti<\/a> was three days into his first trip at sea and so far the voyage from New York City<\/a> to Cap Ha\u00eftien<\/a> had been miserable.<\/p>\n

But the tide would turn. After passing Cape Hatteras<\/a>, the admitted \u201cnovice in sea-faring life\u201d recovered. Langston \u201cenjoyed the trip thereafter with a zest and pleasure real and inspiriting.\u201d He became filled with a thrilling realization: soon he would land in Haiti. In a few short days, he would \u201cbehold now for the first time . . . negro nationality in harmonious, honored activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Childhood lessons about Toussaint Louverture<\/a> did not prepare Langston for his arrival in Haiti. They could not. One week after leaving New York, Langston was stunned when the British captain obeyed orders from Haitian men who came on board the \u201cAndes\u201d to direct it into the harbor. Put simply, he \u201chad never seen up to that time men of their complexion holding such positions and performing such duties.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination African American Intellectual History Society 2016-03-13 Brandon Bryd, Assistant Professor of History Mississippi State University John Mercer Langston Mathew Brady – Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.pnp\/cwpbh.00690. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH83- 30771 In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8],"tags":[20798,20797,23345,23347,1062,23346],"class_list":["post-46296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-aaihs","tag-african-american-intellectual-history-society","tag-brandon-bryd","tag-brandon-r-bryd","tag-haiti","tag-john-mercer-langston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46297,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46296\/revisions\/46297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}