neg maron
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Neg Mawon is a famous Statue in front of the Haitian National Palace in Port-au-Prince Haiti. Neg Mawon was created by sculptor and architect Albert Mangones
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The Neg Mawon statue is in tribute to the brown men in hiding (slaves) who ran away into the mountains and became the slave armies lead by Boukman for 13 years against the St. Dominque's colonists and later, Napoleon's army.
These slave armies were commanded by General Toussaint Louverture and later by General Jean-Jacques Dessalines to ultimate victory over the French at the Battle of Vertières on 18 November 1803.
He holds a Queen Conch shell in his left hand signifying its use for communication. The Mawon statue originally had a machete in his right hand and a shackle and chain on his left angle. These have been damaged.
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