The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society will hold a virtual meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday. The meeting will feature a talk by Marvin Tupper Jones, “Haiti and the Civil War.”
The American Civil War is sometimes called the second Haitian Revolution. For both events, slavery was the driving force and Black armies took part, a release said. For more than 60 years, pro-enslavers feared Haiti, while the enslaved and abolitionists found great hope from Toussaint Louverture and Haiti.
Jones will detail the actions of the enslaved and abolitionists who were encouraged by the Haitian Revolution as well as Haiti’s own involvement in offering freedom to people of color.
Jones, a documentary photographer and filmmaker, is the executive director of the Chowan Discovery Group, a research, documentation, preservation, and presentation organization. Among the group’s accomplishments are eight documentaries, 15 historical markers, a touring exhibition, a stage presentatio...