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On Aug. 21, 1791, enslaved Africans on the slave colony of St. Domingue revolted against French colonial rule. The revolt, which transformed itself into the Haitian Revolution, began 230 years ago and ...
Julia Gaffield is associate professor of history at Georgia State University and is the author of “Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution” (UNC Press, 2015). This ...
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 ...
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and historian Marlene Daut discuss parallels between the Haitian Revolution and the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. for our series, "We Hold These Truths." What can ...