1940s: (Carrying the Enslavement Pronouncement into the 1940s — Carrying Sylvain-Bouchereau’s Pronouncement That Haitian Women Were Slaves into the 1940s LFA…

1940s: (Carrying the Enslavement Pronouncement into the 1940s — Carrying Sylvain-Bouchereau’s Pronouncement That Haitian Women Were Slaves into the 1940s LFAS Women Using Meanings of Enslavement to Indicate Haitian Women’s Location Belonging and Value in Society, Over the Course of the 1940s LFAS Women’s Research and Writing Offering Evidence to Substantiate This Claim): Carrying Sylvain-Bouchereau’s pronouncement that Haitian women were slaves into the 1940s, LFAS women used meanings of enslavement to indicate Haitian women’s location, belonging, and value in society. Over the course of the 1940s, LFAS women’s research and writing offered evidence to substantiate this claim — the language of enslavement was not metaphor but methodology, a framework for measuring the distance between the nation’s revolutionary promise and the daily reality of women’s unfreedom.