The population of New Orleans actually doubled in the early 19th century from a belated wave of Saint-Domingue immigrants who had first sought refuge in Cuba; these early "Haitian Americans" of many ...

Macron’s remarks appear to come from a place of a highground that his country’s colonial past with Haiti ill-affords.

Haitians reacted Friday with indignation to comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron recorded at the G20 summit in ...

Haiti has summoned France's ambassador following remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron who was filmed calling the ...

And you, slaves of all countries ... An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution, out now with the University of North Carolina Press.

The Haitian Revolution (1789–1804) was an epochal event that galvanized slaves and terrified planters throughout the Atlantic world. Rather than view this tumultuous period solely as a radical rupture ...

The Haitian revolution was the first by a former slave colony and was to inspire other emancipation movements across the New World. History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate ...

However, when news of the revolution spread to the French colony of Saint-Domingue, known today as Haiti, slaves revolted violently, burning plantations to the ground and executing any Frenchman ...

Ideas of “wild” and “backwards” African religions resurfaced during the Haitian Revolution of 1804—the first and only successful slave revolt in the Americas, which led to the establishment of Haiti ...

A man who led the only successful slave revolt, a man known as Black Spartacus. These accomplishments are even more impressive for the Haitian people and Louverture when one considers the humble ...

Haiti was once the wealthiest European colony in the Americas – and staged the only ever successful slave rebellion against its French colonial masters before declaring independence in 1804.