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“Tiré machet now stands as a living reminder of their ancestors’ use of this instrument in successful revolutionary struggle whose history is recreated through ritual displays and initiations into tiré machet as contemporary masters literally embody the spirit of courage of their ancestors who liberated themselves and their country though their blood and mastery of the stick and machete.”
-T. J. Desch-Obi, “Koup Tet”: A Machete Wielding View of the Haitian Revolution
