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On February 19, 1794, the Battle of Acul, near Petit-Goâve, took place during one of the most complex moments of the Haitian Revolution, at...

Founded in 1788 on the eve of the French Revolution, the Society of the Friends of the Blacks was the first structured abolitionist organization...

In 1834, a few hundred African Americans landed at Cape Palmas, on the western coast of Africa. Their ambition was immense: to found a...

In 1971, at the age of 19, he became the youngest head of state in the world. Son of “Papa Doc,” Jean-Claude Duvalier inherited...

Long relegated to the margins of historical narratives, the trans-Saharan slave trade nonetheless deported between 6 and 10 million Africans. Desert routes, sexual slavery,...

Boukman, Dutty Boukman, Zamba Boukman was the leader of the “Bwa Kayiman” ceremony on August 14, 1791. This ceremony was one of the triggering events...

Learn how Calinda resisted bans and continues to live on through modern competitions and cultural ceremonies. Introduction Calinda (also known as Kalenda) is a traditional dance...

Nicknamed “Amazons” by European travelers in comparison with characters from ancient Greece, the female warriors of Dahomey—known in the Fon language as Mino (“our...

He was a slave, a strategist, a republican, a governor; then a prisoner of the Republic he had served. Toussaint Louverture is not a...

Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is the founder and first resident of the city of Chicago. DuSable was born around 1745 in Saint-Marc, in Saint-Domingue, and...