Can't stand up for falling down: Haiti, its revolution, and twentieth-century Negritudes / Martin Munro -- Troping Toussaint, reading revolution / Nick Nesbitt -- Abbé Grégoire and Haitian ...
A new book by Historian Julia Gaffield analyzes the mixed legacy of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haiti's first head of state post ...
Cambridge, MA – Many things account for Haiti’s modern troubles. A good perspective on them comes from going back in time to 1715 or so — and grappling with a far-flung narrative involving the French ...
📜 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 ...
A statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Although there have been biographies of Dessalines in ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Julia Gaffield, William & Mary (THE CONVERSATION) Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates ...