Biographie

Charlemagne Péralte, the Crucified of Haiti

In a now-legendary photograph, he appears nailed to a door, the Haitian flag draped over his head. In 1919, the American marines thought they...

Marie Rose Cavelan, the Creole insurgent whom colonial history tried to erase

Marie Rose Cavelan is not an easy figure. Mixed-race, free, a slaveowner, co-instigator of an anti-British insurrection in Grenada in 1795, she embodies the...

Vincent Ogé, the rebellious creole

Vincent Ogé, often relegated to the margins of the Haitian Revolution, was nevertheless one of the first to challenge the colonial racial order. A...

Victor Cochinat, the martiniquais intellectual in imperial France

Discover the remarkable trajectory of Victor Cochinat (1819–1886), a Martiniquais lawyer, journalist, and committed intellectual, a forgotten figure of critical colonial thought under the...

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