📜 The Haitian Revolution: The Slave Society - The Haitian Revolution is a unique historical event in many ways. It was both an offshoot of the French Revolution, but also an anti-colonialist ...

As National Haitian Heritage Month unfolds, it’s a call to remember something truly extraordinary: the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). This wasn’t just another fight for independence; it was a ...

History mostly remembers the exploits of male freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution. Figures such as its leader, General Toussaint Louverture; Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who became the first ...

The Haitian revolution inspired slave revolts across the Americas, and slave-owners across the Americas quaked in fear. Whereas the French espoused “Liberté, Égalite, Fraternité” while re-establishing ...

Later that year, the Haitian military endorsed Dessalines as emperor Jacques I, and the newest country in the Americas became the Empire of Haiti. Yet Haiti’s war with France was hardly over.

“Sister Mother Warrior” by Georgia author Vanessa Riley is a fictionalized account of the 18th century Haitian Revolution told through the two women who loved and supported the first emperor ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — This weekend an event in Springfield put a spotlight on the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s status as the western hemisphere’s first free black republic was one of several ...

January 1st signifies the start of a new calendar year and for the Haitian community, a commemoration of independence from French rule. Haiti was the first nation to be founded by formerly ...

It was the start of the Haitian Revolution, the only known uprising of enslaved people in history that led to the founding of a state that was free from slavery. Meanwhile, ...

Sanité Bélair was a Haitian revolutionary leader who served in Toussaint Louverture's army. She rose through the ranks, first as a sergeant then a lieutenant, leading the charge in the Saint ...