After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

The sins of Haiti were not just its humiliation of European super powers by black people employing superior military ...

An 1802 operation, led by General Leclerc, to regain control of Saint-Domingue – and to restore slavery there, at any cost – failed miserably, due to the ravages of malaria and resistance from ...

The story begins with the Haitian Revolution. France instituted slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue on the western third of the island of Hispaniola – today’s Haiti – in the 17th century.

On the bicentennial of the French royal ordinance of April 17, 1825, which recognized the independence of the former French colony of Saint-Domingue, Emmanuel Macron said that the decision ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marlene L. Daut, Yale University (THE CONVERSATION) In 2002, Haiti’s former ...

He also gave an update: “The people of Saint-Domingue (Haiti ... forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman ...