In 1987, a group of political activists in Port-au-Prince, in protest over ongoing imperialism, overthrew a statue of Christopher Columbus. In place of Haiti& #39;s first colonizer the protesters left a cardboard sign that read: "Foreigners out of Haiti."

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The municipal authorities at first salvaged the statue, bringing it back on shore, but the next day protesters pushed it into the sea again. "He will stay there until further notice," the Mayor& #39;s office said at the time. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/06/world/the-talk-of-port-au-prince-ghost-haunts-haiti-specter-of-duvalier-s-return.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/0...

Eventually, the statue was fished out of the ocean for good, but it has thankfully never been returned to its former pedestal.

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Columbus and his men wreaked havoc upon the island’s indigenous population, constantly fantasizing about either overthrowing or enslaving them: https://twitter.com/FictionsofHaiti/status/1312689401181372418?s=20">https://twitter.com/Fictionso...

Instead of Columbus, remember & celebrate 2 of the first anti-imperialists, rulers on the island of Ayiti: Caonabo, who died in Spanish captivity in 1494 after having been imprisoned for staging a rebellion; and his wife, Anacaona, hanged by the Spanish in 1503 for sedition.

The Haitian historian, Émile Nau, told their story and so many others from indigenous Ayiti in his important but understudied, Histoire des Caciques (1855).

"Voilà, all of Haitian history written by Haitian hands," Nau wrote.

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