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...emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days, not the far more customary story of white oppression. "The story of the Underground Railroad allows you to talk about slavery in a way that's productive, positive and uplifting," says Ed Rigaud, the center's president...
...visit to the island in 1973, Elko promised that Flood would increase U.S. aid. Within a month of Elko's return home, Congress approved $23.4 million in economic aid for Haiti, about 21/2 times as much as Haiti received during the previous year. In return, says Lucien Rigaud, a prominent Haitian businessman and former aide to Duvalier...
...works of such increasingly sophisticated artists as Rigaud Benoit, Andre Normil and Prefete Duffaut are already selling at hundreds and even thousands of dollars. But bargains can still be had if tourists are willing to search out true primitives like St. Pierre, who works as a caretaker at a large home on the road to Kenscoff and paints in his spare time. He sells his characteristic bird-and-leaf designs for as little...
...Charles Wilson, escaping jail as Biggs had, fled to Rigaud, Canada, with his wife and three children. But the jailbreak cost $140,000 (for men to free him with cleverly counterfeit keys), and the flight from England about as much. The Wilsons lived in constant terror of attracting attention. "The nagging fear of discovery," said Patricia Wilson, "gave me a permanent headache." Said her husband, recaptured in January 1968: "It wasn't worth...
...elements" bent on sabotage and assassination of the "closest collaborators of Haiti's head of state." For days, Haitian exile leaders in the Dominican Republic remained quiet. Then, Father Jean-Baptiste Georges, a Roman Catholic priest who once served as Haiti's Education Minister, and Pierre L. Rigaud, head of Haiti's old liberal National Democratic Union, called a press conference in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The exile force, they announced, was part of the Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces, and was delivering arms to a resistance group already in Haiti. Where they were getting weapons...