While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and ...

The United States are necessarily much interested in St. Domingo." The example of the Haitian Revolution resonated in the United States through events such as slave uprisings in the Richmond area in ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean ... which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

But it emboldened African-American slaves. Fears that Haiti's successful revolt could inspire slave insurrections in the United States led to increased restrictions on the movements of blacks in ...

Professor Charles Forsdick tells the story of Toussaint Louverture, who led Haiti’s successful and highly adaptive slave ...

Louverture was a former slave who's rebellion on the French-controlled Caribbean island of Saint-Domingue ultimately led to the formation of the nation of Haiti in 1804. The most famous rebellion ...

Chicago Founder and Haitian Revolutionary Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Chicago Founder Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ...

Haitians are living in a state of emergency. The story of Haiti, the only country founded from a successful slave revolt and the first free Black republic in the Western Hemisphere, is complicated.