In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

The sins of Haiti were not just its humiliation of European super powers by black people employing superior military ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...

France extracted a huge indemnity from Haiti, in exchange for recognition of its independence. This week marked the 200th ...

After independence, Dessalines the new leader declared ... The pointed lesson of the Haitian Revolution is that all oppressed people can liberate themselves no matter how powerful their ...

In 2023, as he delivered a speech on the 175th anniversary of France’s abolition of slavery by paying tribute to Toussaint Louverture, a leader of the Haitian Revolution, Macron did not mention ...

His statement blamed a revanchist monarchy for dashing those hopes, appearing to exempt Napoleon – who previously tried, and failed, to crush the Haitian Revolution and reimpose slavery – from ...