When the World Wounds by Kiini Ibura Salaam;

Author:Kiini Ibura Salaam;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2020-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Note: Joseph Savary, a native of Saint-Dominique (Haiti), fought with the French during the Haitian Revolution. When Haiti became independent, Savary and his family settled in Barataria, Louisiana, home of Pierre and Jean Lafitte, notorious pirates who operated off the coast of Louisiana and Spanish Texas. Savary single-handedly raised his 256-member Second Battalion, Free Men of Color of the Louisiana Militia and was inducted into service on December 19, 1814. After fighting back the British on the banks of the Mississippi River, the Second Battalion and other all-black battalions were held in reserve during the main Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. Savary’s battalion defied orders and rushed to the front. Savary’s men killed British Commanding General Pakenham on the field of battle. At the end of the conflict Jackson publicly praised the Second Battalion and its commander. When the war ended, however, Jackson, at the request of New Orleans’s white residents who feared a slave uprising, ordered all black troops out of the city. Savary returned to Spanish Texas where he was welcomed by Pierre Lafitte. He eventually moved to New Orleans in 1822, after joining Mexican rebels fighting for their nation’s independence. The adventures of Hemmie the Swamp Witch have been lost to history.

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