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Niles, Blair Niles, Robert

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Black Haiti; a biography of Africa's eldest daughter, by Blair Niles ... illustrated from photographs by Robert Niles, jr.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. Cannons
  2. Forts & Fortifications

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The great prow of the Citadel Orange lichens enamel the grimly beautiful surface of the fortress walls The gateway of the palace The prisoner who drummed Wayside peace At Bizoton Ruins of the palace Chocoune." Black Haiti; a biography of Africa's eldest daughter. [Title page] Little fingering lights supply features to the black faces of the market vendors In Petit Goâve the sunshine is of so intense a clarity that clarity that the life surging in the streets is seen as purely objective Under the moon the walls of the huts showed white beneath the heavy shadows of their thatched roofs View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sullivan's Island), S.C., looking N.E. [Unidentified Union gun crew with 32-pounder cannon at Camp Defiance, Cairo, Illinois] Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states Ten Inch Columbiad, and Magazine Entrance, Sand Bag Revertment (i.e. revetment), Battery Dantzler, (Howlett's) on James River Northeast view of Battery no. 1, at Farnhold's house, York River, mounting one 200 pound & five 100 pound rifled guns North wall of Fort Sumpter (i.e. Sumter) Morro Castle General Sherman and staff
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