Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...

This weekend an event in Springfield put a spotlight on the Haitian Revolution. Haiti’s status as the western hemisphere’s ...

If the French Revolution, which took place from 1789 to 1799, had not occurred, the course of history would have been ...

Growing up, Dayna James never thought she’d willingly step foot on a plantation, let alone thank God for one. On an early ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

These portraits, like the testimony in court and the revolt onboard the Amistad, bring the massive, messy, contested story of slavery down to the scale of individual humans. Their visages call ...

These portraits, like the testimony in court and the revolt onboard the Amistad, bring the massive, messy, contested story of slavery down to the scale of individual humans. Their visages call upon ...

In August 1831, a slave, Methodist preacher, and prophet named Nat Turner led the only successful slave revolt in American history ... who had fought on the British side in the American Revolution and ...

The first group of Haitian migrants deported from the United States arrived back in Haiti on Tuesday. They landed at Cap-Haïtien airport on the country’s north coast, the only airport still ...

The attempt to induce a collective amnesia about the Haitian revolution seems to be aimed at concealing a humiliating episode in the history of Great Powers of the time who were stunned by a well ...

and its symbolic significance can be traced to the Haitian Revolution. >> On August 14, 1791, after almost 300 years of slavery, the Maroon society and many enslaved people, they gathered and had ...