Following many years of hidden and small-scale resistance, African slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (or San Domingo) rose up in 1791 against their colonizers and slave masters. By 1804, ...

These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois makes the point that Haiti transformed the world and played an integral role in the ...

October, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state ...

The Haitian Revolution was one of the most important revolutions in the Western Hemisphere. Yet, our barelyfunded school system only teaches children the importance of the American and French ...

On this date we remember Haiti’s founder General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who was killed after becoming the first world leader in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery. PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – ...

Massachusetts has the third-largest Haitian diaspora in the country, with more than 87,000 Haitians calling the state home. The Haitian community has a long history in Massachusetts, and more migrants ...

“Sister Mother Warrior” by Georgia author Vanessa Riley is a fictionalized account of the 18th century Haitian Revolution told through the two women who loved and supported the first emperor of Haiti, ...

A statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Although there have been biographies of Dessalines in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julia Gaffield, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates ...