These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois makes the point that Haiti transformed the world and played an integral role in the ...

The Haitian Revolution was one of the most important revolutions in the Western Hemisphere. Yet, our barelyfunded school system only teaches children the importance of the American and French ...

At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night, filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Spencer Platt ...

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Following many years of hidden and small-scale resistance, African slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (or San Domingo) rose up in 1791 against their colonizers and slave masters. By 1804, ...

In 1826, the Congress of Panama was organized by Simon Bolivar, including representatives from Peru, Mexico, and what was then Gran Colombia (Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela) and the United ...

Q: What was the impact of the Haitian Revolution on Americans, black and white? How did Americans percieve Toussaint? What did Jefferson think about Haiti? A: All of the American newspapers covered ...

While philosophers often construct universalist narratives without deeply engaging archival sources, and social historians meticulously catalog diaries, newspapers, and eyewitness accounts without ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Julia Gaffield is an Associate Professor of History, ...