During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint-Domingue, which later became Haiti, fought for France on the side of the revolutionaries. Likely ...

the first French president to set foot on Haitian soil. His historic trip recalled long-standing colonial wounds, even as he graciously offered much-needed economic assistance to a ravaged Port-au ...

"The Haitians deserve it," he said. President Macron's unguarded comments didn't go down well in Haiti, a former French colony whose population suffered enslavement and exploitation under imperial ...

With Toussaint as its Governor for life, St. Domingue was still technically a French colony, but was acting ... which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

Vodou is thought to have its roots in "tribal religions" that were brought to Haiti, then known as the French colony of Saint-Domingue, by West Africans taken as slaves, said Al Jazeera.

depose Toussaint and reinstate slave labor so Haiti could once again become a hugely profitable French colony. In 1802 he sent 30,000 soldiers under General Leclerc to do the job. After bloody ...

A constitution approved by the new Colonial Assembly in 1801 ... overran the remaining French. In 1804, the country renamed itself Haiti, which means "mountainous," and declared its independence ...