Philippe Hannibal Price was a
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
an diplomat and author.
After the fall of President
Michel Domingue
Michel Domingue served as the President of Haiti from 14 June 1874 to 15 April 1876.
Biography
Michel Domingue was born in Les Cayes in 1813. He graduated from military training and became commander of army units in Sud.
From 8 May 1868 to ...
, Price became a Counselor to the Provisional Government of 1875 and was a serious advocate of
Florvil Hyppolite
Louis Mondestin Florvil Hyppolite (26 May 1828 – 24 March 1896) was a Haitian general and politician who served as the President of Haiti from 17 October 1889 to 24 March 1896.
Early life and career
Hyppolite was born in 1827 at Cap-Haïtien ...
.
From 1890 to 1893 he served as
Minister Plenipotentiary
An envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, usually known as a minister, was a diplomatic head of mission who was ranked below ambassador. A diplomatic mission headed by an envoy was known as a legation rather than an embassy. Under th ...
to
Washington, D.C.
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It was during this time that he wrote his most famous book, ''De la Réhabilitation de la Race Noire par la République d'Haïti'' ( en, On the Rehabilitation of the Black Race by the Republic of Haiti), published in 1893. Price died in
Baltimore, Maryland
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of
typhoid fever
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at the age of fifty-two.
[Michael R. Hall, Historical Dictionary of Haiti, 2012]
p. 215 s.
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Selected works
* ''Etudes sur Les Finances et L'Économie des Nations''
* ''Rapport sur Les Traveaux de la Première Conférence Pan-Américaine''
* ''De La Réhabilitation de La Race noire et de La Republique D'Haïti'' (published 1893)
References
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* , coauthors = Dantès Bellegarde, A. Duval, Georges Sylvain
1841 births
1893 deaths
Ambassadors of Haiti to the United States
Haitian non-fiction writers
People from Jacmel
Haitian male non-fiction writers
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