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After Haiti emerged victorious in its historic revolution against settler colonial subjugation and the criminal international enterprise of chattel slavery, it necessarily formed strong defenses as a sovereign independent Black nation. The building block of which was the lakou. A Lakou is a cluster of homes surrounding a shared central courtyard that collectively enacts an egalitarian system that exists outside of the state. A lakou is both an organizational structure and an extended family of households caring for one another in shared community. Though each lakou is empowered to take independent action to safeguard against the return of plantation order. As a steadfast decentralized network of grassroots opposition to any state action that sought to violate human rights and regress social progress back towards enslavement, the lakou model proved itself to be a powerful force collectively as well.