1917 · Caribbeanyear only

Washington buys the Danish West Indies to guard the canal

Denmark sold three islands in 1917, and the same map explains the marines in Port-au-Prince.

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1917 · Haitianyear only

Charlemagne Péralte is jailed, and the sentence makes the rebellion

Five years of hard labour for an attack on an American officer's house, and he escaped.

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1917 to the 1940s · Haitianspan

The women who founded the LFAS were the country's first professionals

First woman attorney, first anthropologist, first gynecologist, first social worker, one organisation.

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1917 to 1922 · Haitianspan

An investigator asks if Haitians are careless of their own bodies

The question carried its answer, and the inquiry wrote the answer into the official record.

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1917 to 1934 · Haitianspan

Price-Mars tells elite women that peasants hold their African past

His 1917 lecture called Haitian women the tools of men and asked them to be educated instead.

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4 June 1917 · Haitian

Price-Mars asks for evening schools for the urban poor

Writing in L'Essor two years into the occupation, he made schooling for workers a national question.

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18 to 19 June 1917 · Haitian

Butler goes to the palace and comes back with a signed decree

The president pleaded illness, then found four ministers to sign in a hand too small to read.

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19 June 1917 · Haitian

Vincent calls the Americans foreign dogs, then reads their decree

Gendarmes loaded their rifles in the chamber, and Butler restored order with the dinner bell.

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1917 · Haitianyear only

A dead colonial road law is revived and the countryside rises again

Butler used the corvee to build roads, and the insults it carried refilled the Caco ranks.

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5 September 1917 · Haitian

A market woman steps out from behind a water cart in Port-au-Prince

A marine truck opened her leg twelve inches, and the court called the collision unavoidable.

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night of 10 to 11 October 1917 · Haitian

A birthday gift in the shape of the first caco attack on Hinche

Michel dates the duel to the death from the night Peralte turned thirty-two.

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11 October 1917 · Haitian

The Peralte brothers are jailed whether guilty or not

Arrests sweep up notable citizens of Hinche; Charlemagne's house is burned.

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28 November 1917 · Caribbean

Trinidad makes it a crime to attend a Shouters meeting

White headcloths, candles and chalk on the floor become evidence for a magistrate.

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