Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

A true but little known story from the Haitian Revolution. Late in the war, things were looking grim for sketchy old France, with much of their army dying of Yellow Fever. But France had one trump ...

The historical events that led to Haiti's independence -- and to the document found by Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield -- began taking shape a few years after the 1782 Treaty of Paris officially ...

The link between the demise of the Creole pig and the crisis of Haiti is the subject of a new documentary produced by WLRN ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all ... Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the new nation, which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

The rebellion against French control was ultimately succession and led to the creation of the nation of Haiti in 1804. On plantations, there were two types of resistance: Passive resistance ...