Tag: Slavery
Haitian National Holiday: October 17th -Death of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
"We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves."
— Jean-Jacques Dessalines
The death of Jean-Jacques Dessaline is...
Haiti may have been in the avant-garde of the good, the...
Historians have revealed that Christopher Columbus, when he stumbled upon Haiti on December 5, 1492, exclaimed: “But this is marvelous!” He was so enchanted...
Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler: Europe and US dodging demands...
Today, over 180 years after abolition, descendants of African slaves in the Caribbean, North and South America are demanding reparations for slavery from Europe...