. The storied West Indies . King Henry I, of Haiti. BLACK KINGS AND EMPERORS 183 self emperor under the title of Faustin I. Herevived the old nobility of the Limonades andMarmalades; but finally Faustin I became the laugh-ingstock of the civilized world, and even degenerateHaiti was forced to repudiate him. A rebellion wassuccessfully raised by one Geffrard, who followedhim a few years later to Jamaica as an exile, both,it was declared, having plundered the island of mil-lions. Salnave, the black soldier, who succeeded themulatto Geffrard as president, was shot in thedoorway of the national pa
. The storied West Indies . King Henry I, of Haiti. BLACK KINGS AND EMPERORS 183 self emperor under the title of Faustin I. Herevived the old nobility of the Limonades andMarmalades; but finally Faustin I became the laugh-ingstock of the civilized world, and even degenerateHaiti was forced to repudiate him. A rebellion wassuccessfully raised by one Geffrard, who followedhim a few years later to Jamaica as an exile, both,it was declared, having plundered the island of mil-lions. Salnave, the black soldier, who succeeded themulatto Geffrard as president, was shot in thedoorway of the national palace by order of his suc-cessor, Saget. Thus they followed each other, these self-elected presidents of hapless Haiti, mulattoes and blacksalternating, the last, who imitated Christophe in allbut his affectations of royalty, being Hyppolite. Hemassacred hundreds of people on his road to the pal-ace in 1891, and died in 1897, being succeeded by a compromise candidate, President-General Sam,also a black man, who reigns in 190
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