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

Since the Haitian Revolution, the largest successful slave uprising in the western hemisphere, began in 1791 and the founding of Haiti as the free Black Republic in 1804, the U.S. has been hostile ...

While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and repeated for political gains, a new book argues.

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In the first week of April 1791, the sisters of a Parisian religious congregation were attacked by crowds of women who accused them of teaching ‘false principles’ to children and plotting ...

After a term marked by inefficiency and rising gang violence, Leslie Voltaire hands over power to his fellow councilor Fritz Alphonse Jean, who vows a tougher security approach. Fritz Alphonse Jean, ...