Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country $21 billion. The reason? In 1825, France extracted a huge indemnity from the young nation, in exchange for ...

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

France extracted a huge indemnity from Haiti, in exchange for recognition of its independence. This week marked the 200th ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...