Rich Benjamin’s new book reveals a shared spirit between the world’s first Black republic and the United States.
During that earlier conflict, several hundred soldiers from the French island colony of Saint-Domingue, which later became Haiti, fought for France on the side of the revolutionaries. Likely ...
C’est à Bois-Caïman, dans un lieu à l’abri des regards, tout au nord de Saint-Domingue – l’Haïti d’alors – que s’écrit le prologue du destin de la première république Noire au ...
In 1804, this revolution brought an end to the French colony of Saint-Domingue and gave birth to Haiti, the first independent black republic in the world. >> Certain scholars who talk about the ...
François Dominique Toussaint was born in 1743 on the plantation of Bréda at Haut de Cap, located in the French colony called Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti. Though not well documented ...
La République dominicaine a annoncé lundi allonger d’une dizaine de kilomètres le mur qui la sépare d’Haïti, portant à 176 kilomètres la longueur prévue de cette barrière destinée à endiguer l’immigra ...
An image showing the Saint-Domingue Revolution of 1791. The rebellion against French control was ultimately succession and led to the creation of the nation of Haiti in 1804. On plantations ...