Despite the rather hyperbolic title (Boney was never in Haiti, though he likely would have lost anyway), this is a a fine treatment of a complex subject. Girard manages to do an excellent job of ...

After seeing Napoleon restore slavery to neighboring Martinique ... In 1804, the country renamed itself Haiti, which means "mountainous," and declared its independence, with Dessalines as leader.

The historical events that led to Haiti's independence -- and to the document found ... Jacques Dessalines in late 1802 and 1803 turned out to be a key reason behind Napoleon Bonaparte's decision to ...

Despite the venom Trump and Vance direct toward our community, Haitians are not the impoverished, alien invaders they want us to be.

He eventually returned to Europe, where he once more fought for Napoleon. The Polish ties with Haiti were strengthened in the 20th century by the famous Polish theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. In the ...

Then Napoleon Bonaparte withdrew his defeated troops. The first slave revolt of the modern era had been successful. Saint-Domingue became Haiti in 1804, the first «black republic», with Vodou ...

Black historical figures and regions are being written about in in books in unique, experiential, and esoteric ways.

When the enslaved Africans defeated Napoleon’s army in 1803, many remaining White French enslavers fled the newly founded Republic of Haiti. Those who sought refuge in Louisiana arrived with ...

Napoleon is a threatening and 'fierce looking' Berkshire boar. He is one of the three pigs that take Old Major's ideas and turn them into 'Animalism' - a system of thought that encourages the ...

On April 3, 1803, Napoleon reclined in a rose water-scented ... France formally acquired the colony of Saint Domingue (in ...

You've probably heard the saying "a man suffers more in imagination than in reality". It's an apt saying. We're all living in our minds, confined by our thoughts, our bleak imaginations, far from ...

But that's what happened Sept. 30, when actor Johnny Whitaker returned to Grant County for the first time since filming the Walt Disney movie "Napoleon and Samantha" there in 1971. Whitaker had ...