Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution With an Inhumane Debt

Painting by Jean-Claude Sévère (Haiti), L’ennemi attaqué chacun de sa propre volonté se tient debout pour défendre sa patrie (When the Enemy Attacks, Everyone Stands up of Their Own Free Will to Defend Their Homeland), 1970.

On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted … Continue reading Two Hundred Years Ago, France Strangled the Haitian Revolution With an Inhumane Debt

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