Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to ...

Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.

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 ENSLAVED ...

The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took his own life. Since that time, as the brilliant Yale historian Marlene L.

On Jan. 12, 2010, Bill Nathan was resting on the patio roof of the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hurled him seven stories onto a concrete roof ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Marlene L. Daut is a Professor of French and African ...

The recent “noise” about Haitian immigrants eating dogs, cats and geese belies the true history of the brave and awesome Haitian people. The Haitian people are heirs to the greatest story never told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marlene Daut, a historian and expert on the Haitian Revolution, is the author of “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and ...