In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...

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The Haitian Revolution of 1791 was the only successful slave rebellion in recorded history. ... In Jonathan David Kane’s short documentary Papa Machete, we meet one such master.

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 ...

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 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 ...

About the Documentary. In Haiti, there is one band that’s seen it all: Septentrional. For six decades, this 20-piece band has been making beautiful music – a fusion of Cuban big band and ...

Fabienne Josaphat, author of Kingdom of No Tomorrow, talks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the Black Panther movement, and its significance inside the U.S., and to Haitian people.

The Haitian Revolution 1794 - 1804: Resource Bank Contents: The French Revolution of 1789 not only propelled all of Europe into a war, but also touched off slave uprisings in the Caribbean.

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.

In his famous account of the Haitian Revolution, “The Black Jacobins,” C.L.R. James wrote that enslaved men and women in Saint-Domingue in 1791 “had caught the spirit of the thing.Liberty ...