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 ...

Look to Haitian history for a blueprint of how to change our current reality, dream big, and unapologetically craft a new future that is a truly inclusive democracy. I was 9 years old when I first ...

Marlène L. Daut, Haitian American author and Yale University professor and longtime scholar of Haitian history, has received ...

First published in Radical Philosophy this short essay by Peter Hallward explores the power and meaning of the Haitian Revolution for us now. Submitted by red jack on August 9, 2008 Two hundred years ...

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, ...

have instead pointed to the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) as the breeding ground for these ideas and institutions. The revolution took place during the same period as the American and French ...

The Haitian Revolution, culminating with Haitian independence in 1804, was a major world historical event. Contemporaries understood the fact well, but, until relatively recently, most historians ...

Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at Georgia State University and is the author of “Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution” (UNC Press, 2015). This ...

The Haitian Revolution that started in the late 1700s was noteworthy for being the first uprising of enslaved Africans in the New World to succeed in creating an independent state. So explains Cal ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kwame Kwei-Armah, the artistic director of London’s Young Vic, is to adapt the story of the Haitian Revolution after Bryncoed Productions optioned C L R James’ The Black Jacobins: Toussaint ...

Q: What was the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Americans, black and white? How did Americans percieve Toussaint? What did Jefferson think about Haiti? A: All of the American newspapers covered ...