On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...

EDITORIAL. President Emmanuel Macron has made a significant gesture by publicly admitting that forcing the Republic of Haiti ...

Daut’s previous book, “Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution,” was a co-winner of ... Africans and other prisoners — and from there he went to Saint-Domingue, which ...

Saint-Domingue wasn’t just any French colony ... who has written extensively about the Haitian Revolution and its legacy. Conditions were so ghastly that the colony’s estimated population ...

It was a day of mourning. Thursday, April 17, 2025 was exactly 200 years France imposed an evil tax on Haiti for daring to ...

An image showing the Saint-Domingue Revolution of 1791. The rebellion against French control was ultimately succession and led to the creation of the nation of Haiti in 1804. On plantations ...

The Old State House in downtown Boston is a monument to revolution ... enslaved in the former French colony of Saint-Domingue, which would become Haiti upon its independence.

The story begins with the Haitian Revolution. France instituted slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue on the western third of the island of Hispaniola – today’s Haiti – in the 17th century.

In it, he indirectly justified the Haitian Revolution on the basis of the US revolt against British colonialism. He also gave an update: “The people of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) tired of paying ...