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Jacques Roumain

Died in 1944

Jacques Roumain was born on 4 June 1907 in Port-au-Prince, a grandson of President Tancrède Auguste. He studied in Belgium, Switzerland, France and Germany, and on his return, in 1927, founded La Revue indigène. Committed against the American occupation, he founded the Haitian Communist Party in 1934, was arrested several times, then exiled by President Sténio Vincent. Back in 1941, he founded the Bureau d'ethnologie, then represented his country in Mexico. He died in Port-au-Prince on 18 August 1944.

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