Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Project 2025 adviser was exposed Thursday in a congressional hearing for defending slavery in Haiti. Mark Krikorian, an adviser ...
As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to legalize their path to liberation and even entertained the idea of doing ...
In December 1801, Napoleon sent 20,000 French soldiers to Saint-Domingue with one brutal objective: restore slavery in France ...
In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they’ve taken over the whole northern province. By the following year, they ...
The recent “noise” about Haitian immigrants eating dogs, cats and geese belies the true history of the brave and awesome Haitian people. The Haitian people are heirs to the greatest story never told ...
JANUARY 1ST SIGNIFIES THE START OF A NEW CALENDAR YEAR. AND FOR THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY, A COMMEMORATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM FRENCH RULE. HAITI WAS THE FIRST NATION TO BE FOUNDED BY FORMERLY ENSLAVED ...
A French and African diaspora studies expert argued the crucial significance of the Haitian Revolution in broader anti-colonial history at a Georgetown University event Feb. 18. A Yale University ...
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that historic injustice was imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity to France in exchange for its independence 200 ...