Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and ... Eternal hatred of France!" Natives of Haiti! My happy fate was to be one day the sentinel who would watch over the idol to which you ...

Once he lost the colony, Louisiana became far less valuable to him. When the Haitian Declaration of Independence was first published in American newspapers in the spring of 1804 -- quite widely, as ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...

On Saint Domingue, the free people of color began the chain of rebellion when French planters would not grant them citizenship as decreed by the National Assembly of France in its "Declaration of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity in ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

On January 1, the now-former president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council, Leslie Voltaire, urged France to “repay the debt of independence and reparations for slavery”.

The fourth session of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent closed with calls for reparations for Haiti on the ...

But new details are highlighting how over-the-top and opulent these events could really be, and yes, the Declaration of Independence was once even involved. But in 2004 (via USA Today), reports ...

EDITORIAL. President Emmanuel Macron has made a significant gesture by publicly admitting that forcing the Republic of Haiti ...

Commuters, tourists and street vendors hustle past the 18th-century former Massachusetts capitol, the site of the Boston Massacre and Boston’s first reading of the Declaration of Independence.

He did not mention an apology, or a financial restitution, and his declaration is sure ... recognition of what France’s “independence debt” did to Haiti’s development.