April 22, 2017
Portrait of General Fabre Geffrard, President of Haiti, 1859
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Geffrard was one of the collaborators in the coup to remove Emperor Faustin I. He would later express support for the US abolition movement, give a state funeral for John Brown and even assist in the blockade of the Confederacy. |
The Illustrated London News, 29 October 1859. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries. |