This video tells the incredible story of Henry Christophe, a man born into slavery who rose through revolution to become the first and only king of independent Haiti. After fighting alongside ...

In December 1801, Napoleon sent 20,000 French soldiers to Saint-Domingue with one brutal objective: restore slavery in France ...

Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from 1771 to 1845. Before gaining its independence, Haiti was known as ...

Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution--the largest uprising of enslaved people in history--in this installment of the New York Times Why would Napoleon Bonaparte sell the Louisiana Territory to ...

Click to open image viewer. A large framed artwork composed of two separate canvases. One canvas depicts a Haitian reinterpretation of the 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte portrait, Bonaparte, First Consul and ...

Haiti became the world's first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state when it threw off French colonial control and slavery in the early 19th Century. But independence came at a ...