“Haiti has been ruthlessly exploited by Western powers many times in its 200 years of independence,” said Madison Smartt Bell, an English professor at Goucher College in Towson, Md., and ...

The fates of Haiti and Cuba, those just-next-door neighbours in the Caribbean, have been uniquely intertwined, like non-identical twins. Haiti, a French colony, began its revolution in 1791, true to ...

Cuba, for many Americans, at least as far back as the late 1950s, was already high ground for international solidarity in the push-back against neo-colonialism.

Haiti achieved independence in 1804 in the world’s first successful slave revolt and the first successful anti-colonial revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean. For those Afro-descendants ...

Black Americans should be just as outraged by what's happening in Cuba and Haiti as they are at racism at home, says ... “After the Haitians gained independence from French colonial rule in ...

The main goal of most participants in the war of independence was direct control over their own livelihood and land. Haiti’s first constitution was careful to block foreign ownership of Haitian ...

Haiti's Revolution and the United States The historical events that led to Haiti's independence -- and to the document found by Duke graduate student Julia Gaffield -- began taking shape a few years ...

The Root of Haiti’s Misery: Reparations to Enslavers. In 1791, enslaved Haitians ousted the French and founded a nation. But France made generations of Haitians pay for their freedom.