In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted, rising up by the thousands. Within ten days they’ve taken over the whole northern province. By the following year, they ...

Two hundred years after the Haitian Revolution, its complexity and spirit still live in surviving documents at the John Carter Brown Library. The library will feature an exhibition on the revolution ...

The Stono Rebellion of 1739 has largely been overlooked when discussing Black Americans’ fight for liberation throughout history. Still, it is one of the most forceful displays of resistance in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We are all descendants of the Haitian Revolution.” These are words from Laurent Dubois’s book, Avengers of the New World: The ...

The Haitian Revolution that started in the late 1700s was noteworthy for being the first uprising of enslaved Africans in the New World to succeed in creating an independent state. So explains Cal ...

What can the Haitian Revolution tell us about the struggle for racial equality in the United States here today? As part of our series of conversations about democracy called We Hold These Truths, ...

Early Spanish sailors like Gonzolo Oviedo who sailed to the Islands in 1514 on the first of his many journeys to America compiled detailed descriptions and illustrations of products and goods he found ...

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Following many years of hidden and small-scale resistance, African slaves in the French colony of Saint Domingue (or San Domingo) rose up in 1791 against their colonizers and slave masters. By 1804, ...