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Haitian Pavilion dedication (World's Columbian Exposition)

CTL-E-0432 · Event · other · unspecified

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Haiti was represented with a pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; Frederick Douglass was appointed commissioner to the Haitian Pavilion in 1892 and delivered his 'Lecture on Haiti' at the pavilion's dedication in Chicago on January 2, 1893.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-116; source research type(s): Event. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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