These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois makes the point that Haiti transformed the world and played an integral role in the ...

The Haitian Revolution was one of the most important revolutions in the Western Hemisphere. Yet, our barelyfunded school system only teaches children the importance of the American and French ...

With long experience of chaos, violence, and dysfunctional governance, Haiti looks now to be on the verge of new crisis in the form of foreign military intervention. U.S. and United Nations ...

October, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state ...

In the late 1700s and early 1800s, Toussaint Louverture led a slave rebellion that eventually overthrew French colonization in what was then Saint-Domingue and what became the independent nation of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In August of 1791, the only successful slave revolt began in the modern day nation of Haiti. Philippe Girard recounted the events that led to a ...

Following many years of hidden and small-scale resistance, African slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (or San Domingo) rose up in 1791 against their colonizers and slave masters. By 1804, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On this day in 1791, the only successful slave revolt began in the modern day nation of Haiti. Author Philippe Girard talks about how Haiti has ...

These tragedy-soaked portraits seem to be the only narratives about Haiti to which people beyond its borders are willing to pay attention. As a Haitian-American, I have witnessed the tragic ...

Julia Gaffield has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies. A radical, unlikely figure has emerged as the icon of Haiti’s months-long protests against President Jovenel Moïse, ...