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Description and Holding Information
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Bonhomme, Revolution et Contre-revolution en Haiti, 1946-57
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Revolution et Contre-revolution en Haiti de 1946 a 1957: byColbert Bonhomme, (6)+7-349p, Part-au-Prince, Imp. de l’État, 1957. (Bonhomme’s close
alliance with Francois Duvalier dated back to the years of the presidency of Dumarsais Estimé, in office from 1946 to 1950. They both backed Estimé as a
champion of black nationalism or négritude against the long dominance of the mulatto elite as personified by the light-skinned presidents Stenio
Vincent and Élie Lescot; in office 1930-41 &1941-46. Bonhomme, a lawyer and jurist, extoled Lescot’s ascendency to the presidency in his Les origins et les
lecons d’une revolution profunde et pacifique, Imp. de l’État, Avril 1946. Duvalier, a doctor, served in the Lescot cabinet as Minister of Public
Health and Labor from 14 Oct. 1949 to 10 May 1950, when along with his patron he lost office in a coup. In the view of Bonhomme and Duvalier, the period
after the coup of 1946, May 1950 to May 1957 was a period of counter-revolution by anti-democratic and anti-Afro-Haitian forces. A principal in the
1950 coup was the commander of the presidential guard, Paul E. Magliore, who emerged, first as a member of the junta, and then as its successful
candidate for president. Both Duvalier and Bonhomme played roles in opposition to Magloire during that man’s presidency. When Magloire was driven into exile
by a military coup in 1956, Bonhomme served as Secrétaire d'État de la Justice et de l'Économie Nationale in the 56-day administration of Provisional
President Franck Sylvain, 7 Feb to 2 Apr., 1957. At the time of this book’s publication he was Vice-President of the Cour de Cassation. The book ends
its narration with the elections that were finally allowed by the military in September of 1957. Francois Duvalier was one of the two principal
candidates. He prevailed against a mulatto and scion of a prominent family by pursuing a noiriste strategy of challenging the mulatto elite and appealing to
the Afro-Haitian majority. This work thus details the history of Haitian politics from the beginning of the term of one Afro-Haitian leader to the
apotheosis of the negritude movement in the person of Papa Doc Duvalier. Despite its open bias, it does contain a wealth of useful detail for the period.
Regrettably, however, perhaps due to the haste in which it must have been written, it lacks both TOC and index. A portrait of Bonhomme follows the
title page; followed in turn by one of Samuel Devieu, a lawyer, long-time government administrator, and publisher, who signs the preface and may have
assisted as co-author of the main work.)
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Title:
Révolution et contre-révolution en Haïti de 1946 à 1957 / Colbert Bonhomme.
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OCLC Number:
692138888
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Available Volumes
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| Name | Fiche Count | Online | Paper Backup |
| Vol. 1 | | Yes | No |
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