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

Slave owners were petrified because they didn’t want their slaves to revolt like Haiti.” In Book Three: The Fall of Toussaint and Rise of Dessalines 1799-1804, it begins with the colonial ...

Haitian leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines also demanded arms and ammunition, but the British denied his request. After Corbet's second trip, he wrote a letter to then-Gov. George Nugent of Jamaica.

In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

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

On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the new nation, which was called Haiti, a "higher place." ...

Dessalines, in releasing the ship, sent the letter through its captain, Nehemiah Barr. In it, he indirectly justified the Haitian Revolution on the basis of the US revolt against British colonialism.