Officials fear more than , people have died as a result of Tuesday's 7. Robertson, the host of the " Club," blamed the tragedy on something that "happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. The Haitians "were under the heel of the French. They said, 'We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.
And so, the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Soon after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1, and wreaking unprecedented devastation on New Orleans, Louisiana, Robertson weighed in with his own theory. And he [the author] used the term that those who do this, 'the land will vomit you out. But have we found we are unable somehow to defend ourselves against some of the attacks that are coming against us, either by terrorists or now by natural disaster?
Could they be connected in some way? Share this on:. Pat Robertson has previously linked natural disasters and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion in the United States. The slave revolt itself took place in the name of the values and ideals of the French revolution in many readings of history here. In such a fragile society, order could only be precarious, based on terror and violence: the French Revolution shook it in an irreversible way.
Quoted Thursday on Salon. This notion of a pact with the devil is basically an echo of an old colonial response to the successes of the s Haitian revolution. The problem for Haiti is that if it was a hell on earth under slavery, it was also so after the slave revolt, French historians argue. Africans plucked and sent to Haiti to work under the lash and suddenly freed were not a model constituency for civil society. Haiti went from the largest sugar exporter in the world to chaos.
Apter said. An emerging understanding of Haiti during this time is of an island increasingly divided between the 30, to 40, mixed race former slaves, and the more recently arrived slaves from Africa. There has been a horrible cycle of plundering and autocracy within Haitian leadership. Follow the Global News Blog for updates on Haiti throughout the day. Already a subscriber? Monitor journalism changes lives because we open that too-small box that most people think they live in.
We believe news can and should expand a sense of identity and possibility beyond narrow conventional expectations. Your subscription to The Christian Science Monitor has expired. You can renew your subscription or continue to use the site without a subscription. Robertson's tale stems from a legend that Jean Jacques Dessalines, who led the Haitian revolution against the French Army, entered into a pact with Satan disguised as a Voodoo deity in exchange for a military victory, which finally happened in One minister of a Haitian-American church , who does not believe this legend, recently wrote about the frequent references in Haiti "to a spiritual pact that the fathers of the nation supposedly made with the Devil to help them win their freedom from France.
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