1931 · Africanyear only

Dahomean families set out food for the ones sent into slavery

At the yearly rites for the dead, the names of countries across the Atlantic were spoken aloud.

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1931 · Africanyear only

Family names were harder to ask about than human sacrifice

Herskovits collected thirty seven sib names and got them only at the end of his stay.

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1931 · Africanyear only

A professional charm maker sells his recipes to an anthropologist

Just under forty gbo, each with its ingredients, its taboos and the situation it was built for.

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1931 · Africanyear only

Legba was called the Devil only by people taught it by missionaries

Herskovits found the identification came out of the missions and not out of Dahomean practice.

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1931 · Haitianyear only

The first Haitian woman to hold a doctorate studies Creole and Congo children

Six years earlier she had been the first Haitian woman to work in an office.

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1931 · Haitianyear only

A Marine sells ten million copies of a book about the Haiti he invented

Faustin Wirkus called himself a king and counted the rebels as sorcerers.

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January to September 1931 · Africanspan

Two anthropologists spend nine months in Dahomey

Melville and Frances Herskovits worked through an interpreter who was a prince of the royal house.

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January 1931 · Haitianmonth known

Three commissions trigger a strike and a secret written promise

Haiti claims the right to appoint in the treaty services, then asks the legation to help it retreat.

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1931 · Haitianyear only

Haiti exhibits as a sovereign state at the Paris Colonial Exposition

Vincent uses a display among the empires to assert that his occupied country is not a colony.

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1931 · Haitianyear only

Pan American Day becomes a holiday and a women's movement stage

Every April, girls carried twenty-one flags while the League used the crowd for its own argument.

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August 1931 to 7 August 1933 · Haitianspan

Little shortens the flagpole so the Haitian flag flies higher

Public works returned to Haitian hands in 1931, and the occupation wound down by executive agreement.

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5 August 1931 · Haitian

Haitianization agreement signed and martial law suspended the same day

Public works, health and the Service Technique go back to Haiti on 1 October 1931.

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