Liberation - Two commissioners sent from France arrive in Saint Domingue. Their goal is not abolition. Their goal is only to ...

The Slave Society - The Haitian Revolution is a unique historical event in many ways. It was both an offshoot of the French ...

The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean. On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of ...

A: Early in the 19th century, the Haitian Revolution gets talked about and written about by Afro North American commentators as well as by others, as the signal event of the entire history of the ...

Haiti, although located over 9,000 km away from Greece, was the first country to recognize Greek independence from the ...

The population of New Orleans actually doubled in the early 19th century from a belated wave of Saint-Domingue immigrants who had first sought refuge in Cuba; these early "Haitian Americans" of many ...

Advisor: Dr. Hannah Rosen email: [[frbell]] Current Research: Atlantic World, Diaspora and Migration, Slavery and Abolition Frances Bell is historian of the revolutionary Atlantic, focusing on the ...

All ceremonies took place at the Villa d’Accueil, the government palace in Musseau, miles away from the center of Port-au-Prince, which is gang-controlled.

I am a historian of the revolutionary Atlantic world, with a particular focus on the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. My current book manuscript focuses on the Haitian ...

Now known as the Haitian Revolution, the 13-year battle had ripple effects across the Western Hemisphere — including Bonaparte’s decision to sell Louisiana to the United States — and marked ...

Blinken in a statement. “This day marks an important opportunity to commemorate the Haitian Revolution and Haiti’s long history as a nation. “The past year brought with it grave challenges ...