1802–1935: (Marie-Jeanne at Crête à Pierrot and the Ethiopian Connection — the LFAS Sending Sympathies “in the Name of All Haitian Women” to “the Valiant Eth…

1802–1935: (Marie-Jeanne at Crête à Pierrot and the Ethiopian Connection — the LFAS Sending Sympathies “in the Name of All Haitian Women” to “the Valiant Ethiopian Women Who Remind Us of Our Marie-Jeanne at Crête à Pierrot,” In 1802 Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière Alongside Her Husband and Dessalines Defeating Leclerc’s French Army of Over 2,000 Soldiers, Dressed in Military Apparel Wielding a Rifle in One Hand and a Machete in the Other Serving as Both Nurse and Soldier, LFAS Women Suturing the Anticolonial Battles of Women in Haiti and Ethiopia and Stretching Time Across the Atlantic into Africa, Madeleine Sylvain’s Uncle Benito Sylvain Having Been Aide-de-Camp to Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II and Cofounder of the 1900 Pan-African Conference, the Women Also Documenting and Celebrating NACW Events — Through Publishing and Connecting Black Women’s Global Experiences Modeling What Rochat Calls a “Black Diasporic Archiving Praxis” of Collective Records Interpretation Through Community Memory): The LFAS sent its sympathies in the name of all Haitian women to the valiant Ethiopian women who reminded them of Marie-Jeanne at Crête à Pierrot. In 1802, Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, alongside her husband Louis Daure Lamartinière and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines, defeated Charles Leclerc’s French colonial army of over 2,000 soldiers at Crête à Pierrot in the Artibonite Valley. Dressed in military apparel, wielding a rifle in one hand and a machete in the other, Marie-Jeanne served as both nurse and soldier. Suturing the anticolonial battles of women in Haiti and Ethiopia, LFAS women stretched time and Haiti’s revolutionary example across the Atlantic Ocean and into Africa. This was the LFAS’s first organizational connection with Ethiopia, but throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Haitian and Black internationalist leaders had drawn parallels between the two nations. Madeleine Sylvain’s uncle Benito Sylvain, aide-de-camp to Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, was a cofounder of the 1900 Pan-African Conference in which the three free Black nations — Ethiopia, Haiti, and Liberia — were the focus. The women also documented and celebrated the successes of African-descended women on the western side of the Atlantic, announcing NACW events in the same issue. Through publishing and connecting Black women’s global experiences, the LFAS modeled what Desirée Rochat calls a Black diasporic archiving praxis — collective records interpretation through community memory — translating and transferring a revolutionary history that was an explicit community-building practice certifying twentieth-century women’s inheritance to citizenship.