Benito Sylvain

Benito Sylvain (born Marie-Joseph Benoît Dartagnan Sylvain; 21 March 1868 – 3 January 1915) was a Haitian journalist, diplomat and lawyer and one of the organisers of the 1900 Pan-African ConferenceBenito Sylvain (Marie-Joseph Benedict said Sylvain D'Artagnan), born in 1868 in Port-de-Paix (Republic of Haiti) declared the representative of Africans and Afro-descendants colonized by France. One can therefore consider him a pioneer of Pan-Africanism .

In 1887, Benito Sylvain just finished his studies in Paris at the College Stanislas then Law School where he obtained his license and then his doctorate.

Supported by his country that appoints the officer of Marine and secretary to the embassy in London, Benito Sylvain founded in Paris in 1890 a weekly committed against French colonialism, The Brotherhood (which appeared until 1897). It will publish from 1891 to 1893 some articles of Schoelcher .

In 1897, Benito Sylvain staying in Ethiopia and became the Emperor's aide Menelik II , winner of the Italians at the Battle of Adwa (1896).

In 1901, Benito Sylvain, who attend all lectures against slavery, published in Paris his principal work, On the fate of the natives in the colonies of exploitation, an indictment against colonialism.

Very active Afro-descendants student in France, including Haitians, Bénito endeavored to make the connection between Afro-descendants and Africans, in a spirit of resistance to European colonialism, which, in his mind, was that a new form of slavery..[1]

References
  1. Martin, Tony (1985). "Benito Sylvain of Haiti on the Pan-African Conference of 1900". The Pan-African connection: from slavery to Garvey and beyond (1st Majority Press ed.). Dover, Massachusetts: The Majority Press. pp. 201–216. ISBN 0912469110. OCLC 10833862. Retrieved 31 January 2020 – via Google Books.


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