1922 to 1929 · Haitianspan

Haitian revenue buys a thousand miles of all weather road

Docks, airfields, water systems, a radio station, and a British minister who saw almost nothing.

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1922 to 1926 · Haitianspan

A manbo predicts Borno's death and his council returns him 19 to 0

Rumours of mass poisoning, a sabotaged presidential tour, and a body purged before it voted.

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1922 to 1930 · Haitianspan

The great Haitian bonanza turns out to be coffee and a little bauxite

American surveys found almost nothing worth extracting, and Farnham drew 25,000 dollars a year regardless.

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1922 to 1929 · Haitianspan

The occupation jails editors and prosecutes Haitians for feeding the lwa

Chauvet ate roast turkey in his cell while the Garde arrested people for lighting candles.

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1922 to the 1930s · Diasporaspan

Women read each other's continents in Port-au-Prince study clubs

The ICWDR built a curriculum on Black women's lives and posted photographs across the water.

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1922 · Haitianyear only

Kenscoff milk walks ten to twelve hours to town every day

Five to ten litres on a girl's head, down from twelve hundred metres to the Port au Prince market.

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10 March 1922 · Haitian

A high commissioner lands and every paper crosses his desk

John Russell came ashore at Port-au-Prince and made himself the single valve in Haitian government.

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April 1922 · Haitianmonth known

A lecture at Primavera takes the peasant family seriously

A drawing room told that the households its priest calls illegitimate have rules of their own.

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10 April to 15 May 1922 · Haitianspan

Haiti transfers power constitutionally for only the second time

Dartiguenave lost his own council 4 votes to 21, and Borno was inaugurated in May.

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April 1922 · Haitianmonth known

Two men agree that Haiti's Black majority should be governed, never consulted

Borno and Russell built roads, schools and waterworks while closing politics to almost everyone.

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9 May 1922 · Haitian

An officer's car breaks a market woman's leg on L Street in Cap-Haitien

Estrea Jean Gilles was nineteen, and the inquiry held that public silence proved nothing was wrong.

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May 1922 · Haitianmonth known

Injured at nineteen, she testifies mainly that she does not drink

Estrea Jean Gilles spent her statement defending a reputation she needed in order to trade.

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1922 · Haitianyear only

Borno reinstates Jeanty, who is later alone barred from 1804

The ban followed the conductor rather than the composition.

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1922 · Haitianyear only

Armed power in Haiti is gathered into one force under American command

The Gendarmerie put every gun in the country on a single chain of command running to the capital.

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1922 · Haitianyear only

Borno takes office and calls American rule a Christian duty

For eight years he governed with American guns and described the arrangement as benevolence.

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1922 · Haitianyear only

A boy born at Gonaives will give marvellous realism its name

Jacques Stephen Alexis grew up to argue that peasant imagination was modern material.

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1 November 1922 · Diaspora

An assembly in Ankara abolishes the sultanate

The sultan was about to be invited to the peace talks, so the assembly removed him first.

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December 1922 · Haitianmonth known

A law lets foreign companies lease Haitian land for the long term

Francois Dalencour called the measure the legalised assassination of the peasantry.

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