Haiti A drama of the black Napoleon by William Du Bois (S) With the New York cast. – Vintage Poster
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Haiti A drama of the black Napoleon by William Du Bois (S) With the New York cast., preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Haiti A drama of the black Napoleon by William Du Bois (S) With the New York cast.
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This silkscreen poster advertises *Haiti*, a 1938 drama by W. E. B. Du Bois about Toussaint Louverture, the leader the title calls "the black Napoleon." The Federal theater Project, a New Deal program that employed theater workers during the Depression, staged the production with a New York cast, and the subject headings point to Boston as one of its venues. Louverture led the uprising of enslaved people in Saint-Domingue against French rule in the 1790s, and that struggle helped lead to Haitian independence in 1804.
| Created / published | 1938 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Du Bois W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868-1963. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.) sponsor. |
| Subjects | Toussaint Louverture 1743?-1803. Theatrical productions--Massachusetts--Boston--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,673 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 827_Haiti_A_drama_of_the_bl_1938 |
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