Cazale in Haiti is the most famous Polish village. It all started more than 200 years ago... In 1802 and 1803, Napoleon sent more than five thousand Polish legionaries to Saint-Domingue (then a French colony) to fight an uprising of black slaves.
The Poles did not burn to fight. Most of the Poles arrived on the island extremely starved and without weapons or equipment. Almost half of the soldiers went ashore only to die shortly afterwards from local diseases. Those who survived soon realised that Napoleon had taken advantage of them. He had promised a free Poland, but sent them to suppress the uprising and murder people who wanted to live in a free country.
Poles began to desert and join the insurgent armies. When the insurgents won the revolution and declared independence, they allowed all Poles to stay on the island, even those who fought on the side of France to the end. This is how Polish blood, like a river, spilled over Haiti.
I visited Cazale, which is the village that the Poles founded after winning the uprising and being given the opportunity to settle. I try to see how the descendants of the Polish legionaries live today.
Table of contents:
00:00 Introduction
00:37 History of the Polish Legions in Haiti
04:06 Cazale
05:36 The origins of the Poles after their settlement in Haiti
06:34 State repression
08:22 Rejection of the Polish Heritage
09:04 Cazale today
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Негізгі бет Poles in Haiti - we visit a Polish village, Cazale in Haiti
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