A large monument in a central square in Savannah, Georgia honors the Chasseurs-Volontaires of Saint-Domingue, a regiment of free men of ... Grenada was in British hands at the time of Christophe’s ...

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

Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the face of Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the most influential figures of Spanish Catholicism to mark the 510th anniversary of her birth. This ...

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

When we’re talking Saint Vitus, the word ‘influential’ just seems too small. Formed in LA in 1978, first as Tyrant, before switching to Saint Vitus in 1980, they were arguably the first ...

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 ...