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Jehovah’s Witnesses in Haiti

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2016 Jehovah’s Witness average publishers: 19,754. Congregations: 280. Baptisms: 1,005. Memorial Attendance: 86,256. Preaching hours: 5.3 million.

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Haiti, forming the western half of the island of Hispaniola claimed by the French as Saint-Domingue in 1697, was settled with plantations run primarily by the labor of slaves brought from Africa after most of the indigenous Taino people died out from diseases brought from Europe. Under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture during the Haitian revolution (1791–1804), Haiti became the first independent nation in Latin America in 1804 and the only nation in the world established by a successful slave revolt. Notwithstanding these successes, Haiti remains the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere with a 2016 GDP per capita of $740 and has suffered from chronic political instability, natural disasters, and high rates of violent crime.

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Zion’s Watch Tower magazine, the predecessor of the Watchtower, reported...

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    David G. Stewart

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  1. Sociology/Anthropology, Oakland Univ Sociology/Anthropology, Rochester, MI, USA

    Henri Gooren

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Stewart, D.G. (2019). Jehovah’s Witnesses in Haiti. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_452-1

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