Nearly 150 years after the emergence of the sovereign nation of Haiti, an astonishing narrative of the revolutionaries who settled in Louisiana and their descendants lie in the back of a trash truck in New Orleans, moments from destruction.
“A friend of my father was one of the last members of the Economy Society. And they were emptying out the building because they were going to sell the building,” said Fatima Shaik, a native of the Economy Society community in New Orleans, recalling the last days of the legendary Economy Hall, the venue where jazz was born. The building also served as headquarters to an extraordinary group of men of Color, members of the Societe d’ Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle.
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