French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said a joint commission of French and Haitian historians would investigate the ...

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

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

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

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 ...

That, said Daut, a renown expert on Haiti’s history and revolution who will be giving ... the Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue, that fought alongside American and French troops in the ...

In 1743, Toussaint Louverture was born into bondage in Haiti, the French island colony then known as Saint-Domingue ... distracted by the turmoil of the revolution, a slave rebellion began ...

The relocated African population of Saint Domingue (now Haiti ... Now known as the Haitian Revolution, the 13-year battle had ripple effects across the Western Hemisphere — including Bonaparte ...

Another key factor was the loss of the French colony of Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti ... and had lost interest in maintaining colonies in North America after the Haitian Revolution. This urgency ...