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Excerpt: “Haiti Killing the Dream”, 1992 documentary by Hart and Dana Perry. Courtesy of Crowing Rooster; Kim Ives, editor of the Haitian newspaper, _ Haiti Progres_. He is speaking to us from ...
The link between the demise of the Creole pig and the crisis of Haiti is the subject of a new documentary produced by WLRN called The Creole Pig: Haiti’s Great Loss, which will air on WLRN TV ...
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 ...
📜 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 ...
CRT, Teaching History, and the Haitian Revolution. 2/3/2023 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. For Black History Month, we speak with Marlene Daut, a history professor at Yale. Aired 02/03/2023 ...
The Haitian New Year's Day tradition of soup joumou or pumpkin soup is said to date back to January 1, 1804, the day Haitian slave and revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared Haiti ...
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 ...
In 1809, when the Haitian Revolution ended and Haiti became indpendent, thousands of white, free black and enslaved people fled to New Orleans, doubling the city's population in just a few months.
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 ...
Book review: To fully understand the Haitian Revolution's significance, readers can turn to Trinidadian pan-Africanist Marxist C.L.R. James' magnum opus, The Black Jacobins, first published in 1938.