1935-09: (The LFAS as Women’s Liberators Paired with Haitian Warriors and Queens: During the 1935 Saint-Marc Celebration the LFAS Women Characterizing Themse…

1935-09: (The LFAS as Women’s Liberators Paired with Haitian Warriors and Queens: During the 1935 Saint-Marc Celebration the LFAS Women Characterizing Themselves as Women’s Liberators Paired with the Legacies of Haitian Warriors Marie-Jeanne and Queens Claire Heureuse and Adélina Soulouque Empress Consort and Wife of Faustin I, the Reception Garnishing the LFAS’s Growth in National Zeal and Concluding in a Spontaneous Collective Singing of “La Dessalinienne” at the End of the Night): During the 1935 celebration in Saint-Marc, the LFAS women characterized themselves as women’s liberators. Paired with the legacies of Haitian warriors Marie-Jeanne and queens Claire Heureuse and Adélina Soulouque (empress consort and wife of Faustin I), the reception garnished the LFAS’s growth in national zeal and concluded in a spontaneous collective singing of “La Dessalinienne” at the end of the night, the national anthem rising unbidden from the gathering as the revolutionary genealogy the women had claimed in their menu and speeches became a lived, collective expression of sovereignty.