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

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

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 ...

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.

The sins of Haiti were not just its humiliation of European super powers by black people employing superior military ...

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