1936-09: (Perez Positions Herself and Haiti’s Future as Black — Perez Encouraging Her Niece to Inhabit the Black History of the Citadelle, as Heirs of the Br…

1936-09: (Perez Positions Herself and Haiti’s Future as Black — Perez Encouraging Her Niece to Inhabit the Black History of the Citadelle, as Heirs of the Bronzé King Henry Christophe Perez Distinctly Positioning Herself Marie-Madeleine and Haiti’s Future as Black — She Being the Inheritor of Black Thinking Black Dreaming Black Triumph Black Torment Black Sorrow Black Royalty Black Love and Care, Perez Acknowledging the Political Climate That Weathered the Revolutionary Vision Leaving the Nation with Scars but Still Inciting Her Niece to Climb into the Grief the Weeping and the Victories of Revolutionary Leadership): Perez also encouraged her niece to inhabit the Black history of the Citadelle. As heirs of the bronzé King Henry Christophe, Perez distinctly positioned herself, Marie-Madeleine, and Haiti’s future as Black. She was the inheritor of Black thinking, Black dreaming, Black triumph, Black torment, Black sorrow, Black royalty, Black love, and care. Perez acknowledged the political climate of Haiti’s modern history that weathered the revolutionary vision, leaving the nation with scars, but she still incited her niece to climb into the grief, the weeping, and the victories of revolutionary leadership — the Blackness Perez claimed was not a racial category but a cosmology, a way of being in the world that encompassed the full range of human experience from sorrow to sovereignty.