One President to Another: Photograph of Ex-President Vincent of Haiti in Dark Suit, Center with Hat in Hands, and President Trujillo of the Dominican.

One President to Another: Photograph of Ex-President Vincent of Haiti in Dark Suit, Center with Hat in Hands, and President Trujillo of the Dominican.

"Diplomatic exchanges between Haitian executive officials have been commonplace since the nineteenth century. This photo captures one of several meetings between Dominican President Rafael Trujillo (in military attire) and Haitian president Sténio Vincent who met on both sides of the border to negotiate and display amicable ties between the two nations. Strikingly, these negotiations took place during years and months that preceded the massacre of Haitians ordered by Rafael Trujillo in 1937, highlighting the limits of the diplomatic negotiations. After the massacre, the Haitian government did little to condemn Trujillo’s actions, to the dismay of intellectuals including Jacques Roumain, who wrote about and denounced the massacre at the time." p. 255

Crumbie, Frank R., -1960.

Frank R. Crumbie Papers, Special Collections and Area Studies, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

English

Glover, K. L., Dubois, L., Ménard, N., Polyné, M., & Verna, C. F. (Eds.). (2020). The Haiti reader : history, culture, politics. Duke University Press.

Digital Library of the Caribbean: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/uf00028552/00001

Glover, K. L., Dubois, L., Ménard, N., Polyné, M., & Verna, C. F. (Eds.). (2020). The Haiti reader : history, culture, politics. Duke University Press.

Digital Library of the Caribbean: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/uf00028552/00001.

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