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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A statue of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti. Spencer Platt ...
The history we learned in school often painted enslavement as a system people endured passively, waiting for abolition to arrive through legislation and war. This sanitized version skips over ...
What does this mean for our approach towards this crisis? Firstly, as Noami Klein points out, crises are often used as ...
In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.