Circulated banknote, no tears, in Very Good condition featuring Catherine Flon Arcahaie seated sewing the first flag of the Republic. Watermark- palm tree.
Catherine Flon was born on December 2, 1772, in Arcahaie in Saint-Domingue. According to Haitian revolutionary tradition, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Flon's godfather, cut apart a French tricolor with his sabre, demonstrating his desire to break away from France. He gave the pieces to Flon, who stitched them back together leaving out the central white strip. In Haitian lore, the colors of the new flag took on a racialized meaning: the blue and red stripes represented a union between the black and mulatto citizens of Haiti.
