Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 29.
L'Ouverture made a triumphant march into San Domingo on the 2nd of January, 1801, at the head of 10,000
men, and hoisted the flag of the French Republic. Toussaint did not wish to break with the French, the
largest group of Haitian inhabitants. The Blacks themselves spoke patois French. (1938)
Workbook: January, 2020
January 31, 2020 : In my youth I call to war.January 30, 2020 : Bat in the sky is a man-made thing.January 29, 2020 : The sun is there, the slender trees, the lemon houses.January 28, 2020 : Before you the gunwale of a boat, sunk in sand.January 27, 2020 : The carriage climbed more slowly the hill of Rutland square.January 26, 2020 : White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping.January 25, 2020 : Joseph Campbell took it all back.January 24, 2020 : Teacher, all four are dead.January 23, 2020 : Silly billies: mob of young cubs yelling their guts out.January 22, 2020 : The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high.January 21, 2020 : Day. Wheelbarrow sun over arch of bridge.January 20, 2020 : With her child's smile and her child's enthusiasm she asks to see my fingernails.January 19, 2020 : Clocks are buzzkill, the Docker's Umbrella.January 18, 2020 : From the perspective of a survivor of childhood abuse, this makes emotional sense.January 17, 2020 : Then they turn ugly, those pictures.January 16, 2020 : The Little Drummer Girl...January 15, 2020 : These photos hurt so much because the love was so totalizing.January 14, 2020 : Fossilized light of the first dawn.January 13, 2020 : Cashier: Skinny Cows again today.January 12, 2020 : Mark: Whoa you guys have good radio.January 11, 2020 : Uncle Army Man.January 10, 2020 : There's a rhythm.January 9, 2020 : Fingers less nimble.January 8, 2020 : She told me, "You have really great tone..."January 7, 2020 : But let me ask you this.January 6, 2020 : There've been moments in my life when I felt so claustrophobic I had to withdraw.January 5, 2020 : It's good she let me see him.January 4, 2020 : She'd been raped at age 11.January 3, 2020 : I feel it happen.January 2, 2020 : The literature of depression is filled with anecdotes of depressives who felt worthless.January 1, 2020 : Over the nearly three decades after my breakdown I developed, by trial and error...
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