On my previous website where "The Black General " was a very popular page, several Haitian critics have attacked me for the way the story was told. They claimed that I wrote as if I personally was there witnessing the historical events.
Well, let me tell you as my father used to say, if you did not live these events in your very being , you are missing 99 % of your inheritance and heritage and you don't know what Haiti means or represents. Haiti is not just a word or a place it is also a symbol or ideal. As such it is a reflection of spirit, meaning it is timeless and indestructible. Maybe supressed or dormanrt one but once rediscovered or unearthed it takes on new life. The core and the heart of the race shines or crepuscule in that word.
My response is, not only I was there witnessing all those events but I aim to take you there as well to be a witness yourself, and if you are patient and alert enough you will have the opportunity to enter inside the very head of the "Black General". I do that thru the spiritual power that is in the now, and is now, grabbing the spiritual past in firmly thas was now and forever will be now,. It was the real freedom and sovereignty that the black generals engendered on that Island that was supposed to spread the world over wherever Africans lives.
This is the third time an anonymous reader has written to ask me what one would find inside the black general's head. I guess the anonymous reader won't stop harassing me until I answer him or her. I don't know if he or she expected a joke or a serious answer. But it touches me enough to give a straightforward answer if there can ever be one. Ready? Let's take a dive.....
So my dear reader and visitor, after qualification entry, you will undergo a deep spiritual journey where you will have to pass many tests, Upon completion, you will be given a new ID card that will allow you to download visions. Once you do that, a great library will be available to you. From there all spiritual knowledge will be at your fingertip. in the great library, the black general is there in full glory in a prominent place. After entry, you will be carried away by reverence and awe upon coming face-to-face with the chattel, chained slave metamorphosising into the black general. The generation of power, the concentration of power, and more importantly, the execution of that power are what you will see and find inside the black general's head. The black general was raised to vanquished the best and most modern armies of Europe. Since the Black general have find his way into the spirital realm, his power is also now spiritual, meaning it can ininspire or influence current life. On the right is an image of one of the generals who became king.
Well, dear reader, I hope I have answered your inquiry. The very words written in the answer are a legacy and testimony to the powerful energies circulating inside the Black General's head. Energies beyond the field of good and evil.
Besides Emperor Soulouque who tried to revive Haiti, King Henri was the last real Haitian leader according to my father. Right after his death the mulatto general petion started negotiating with the king of France to pay for our independence. King Henri use to laugh at the idea of paying for the privilege of being a French Haitian. "We will never be French" he exclaimed, "we won our independence on the battlefield at the point of the bayonet, and any negotiation will have to be made on the battlefield. Period". to vex the French further he exclaim "our independance is patiently waiting, dingling on the point of the bayonet, come and get it.". That was how our leaders talked, power to power. Always ready for the final sacrifice with honor. Toussaint had engraved in their skull, "There is no maximum of shame, degradation, humiliation and dehumanization those European powers wont visit on you when they are certain that you cannot defend yourself". What do you think all the obsession with defense was about in the first years after independence? They knew the French would come back. Dessalines had ordered fortifications to be erected all over Haiti. The fact that Dessalines made all the genreals swear allegiance to unity and renounce France forever. The mulattoes killed him and reversed course. They betrayed Haiti. All they ever wanted was to replace white power with their own. The center of Haiti's power was moved from the north to the south after king Henri's death. Down down down we go to our modern time. .....I would need to write a book regarding this..So many things even Haitians don't know. The real history of Haiti is not written by Haitians..... When Haiti was surrounded and under assault by 86 ships of war during Napoleon invasion. One of these ships was a corvette named "Vertu". General Andre Rigaud, general Alexandre Petion, Jean Pierre Boyer, Nicolas Geffrard, Borno Deleard, Jean Louis Villatte, Quarrier Lariviere and Birot, and others, all high ranking mulatto officers on board coming to take revenge against Toussaint Louverture. For they were totally defeated and humiliated two years prior by Toussaint in the "war of the knives". The gentle Toussaint simply deported or exiled them instead of executing them. Toussaint's adopted nephew Moise and second most powerful general in Haiti, had warned Toussaint of this decision. Moise should be known as one of the foremost leader of that period. Much more powerful than Dessalines or Christophe. The only general who had the skills to defeat the great Toussaint Louverture on the battlefield. I call him "the boy soldier". A little Napoleon, became a general at 19 years old and died at 27. I will have to dedicate a page to him. Very, very sad story. Big career mistake by Toussaint in my opinion.
Back to the story, Those mulattoes on board were not ordinary men, there were much more richer than the regular whites. They were from wealthy planters and slave owners' familes. They were for the most part educated in France. And as officers, they were part of the Templar Order. The reason I mention them is because they were all signatories to the young nation paying France unbeilevable sum of money for generations to come, so they can continue believing that they are French and send their kids to France for education, partaking in French culture, thus maintaining a caste system in Haiti. That system still exists today. The French master still lives in the educated Haitian head. All the civil wars, ancient and modern are related to this unsellted affair. Legacy of our mulatto brothers resulting in our recolonization, where they joined forces with foreign settlers to finish us off. But the endless resistance continues.
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My previous intention was to have fun with our black general's sense of humor or the lack thereof in the first week of February 1802, upon sighting the French fleet carrying the expeditionary forces of Napoleon Bonaparte off the coast of Cape Haiti. The intense drama that unfolded between the civilian population, the French forces onboard their ships and our good general, is immensely entertaining. The violent mood swings in the atmosphere were off the chart, signaling yet another powerful eruption from the volcano. And yes I was there, making all the necessary observations, paying close attention to every little details, with my charts and instruments, my richter scale in hand, measuring each swing with precision enabling me to make good and accurate predictions.
Elas, we will save it for another day, another page.
Because of the pertinent request of the visitor and reader who kept asking over and over the same question, we will slice another piece of history for you instead.... To be continued.