A man between two worlds, two colors, two shattered dreams. Jean-Pierre Boyer, the mixed-race son of a French tailor and a formerly enslaved Congolese...
Haitian Creole is often presented as a language with a French lexical base. While formally correct, this definition obscures an essential reality: its Atlantic...
On 22 september 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the Empire of Haiti. A few weeks later, he crowned himself Jacques I in Cap-Haïtien. The first...
On February 23, 1802, in a narrow gorge of the Artibonite, Toussaint Louverture’s troops confronted the French army under Rochambeau. A French victory? A...
Often reduced to a slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution was in fact a political, military, and cultural war of unprecedented magnitude. From 1791 to...
Before they were characters of folklore, Bouki and Ti Malice were prisms. Through them passed centuries of slavery, resistance, and humor as a means...
Militiaman, British colonel, anti-colonial insurgent, political prisoner… Jean Kina embodies one of the most unusual and least-known paths of the Haitian Revolution. This is...
They fought, healed, poisoned, prophesied, gathered intelligence, buried heroes, and rallied the people. And yet, their names are often missing from the textbooks. Cécile...
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