1965
1965: President Duvalier criticized the role played by the affranchis during the colonial era while celebrating the resistance of the mountain maroons.
1965: President Duvalier criticized the role played by the affranchis during the colonial era while celebrating the resistance of the mountain maroons. He issued a decree stating that the maroon movement was the true origin of the struggle for national independence.
Source · p. 229
Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 229