Some images of Haiti in 1865, from an August edition of Harper's Weekly. The sketches, by a Lieutenant M. Farland, show Cap-Haitien, a street in Cap-Haitien, a "belle of Cape Haytien," Place du Geffrard in Port-au-Prince and some soldiers. Smith's Liberty, Fraternity, Exile breathes life into the violent 1865 civil war, centered in Cap-Haitian where a seemingly endless siege of the city by Geffrard's forces sought to defeat Salnave, a presidential contender. Only with the aid of British naval intervention was Geffrard able to win back Haiti's second city, a city captured in these sketches. According to Harper's, the city was mostly one story homes housing a population of 5000, full of foreign merchants and exaggerates the presence of Dominicans in the rebel forces of Salnave.
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