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[ad_1] After the departure of the Duvalier regime in 1986, the color of the flag reverted to the Blue and Red. According to a few sources, the people requested the return of the red and blue flag. On February 25…
[ad_1] Between 1964 and 1986, the family dictatorships of François “Papa Doc” and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier returned to Dessalines’ black and red design. They included the national coat of arms, but altered the flags in its trophy to black…
[ad_1] News of the murder soon reached the American Navy ships anchored in the city’s harbor. President Woodrow Wilson, who was wary about the turn of events in Haiti, and especially the possibility that Bobo would take power, ordered American…
[ad_1] Sam fled to the French embassy, where he received asylum. The rebels’ mulatto leaders broke into the embassy and found Sam. They dragged him out and beat him senseless then threw his limp body over the embassy’s iron fence…
[ad_1] Born 4 March 1859 in Ouanminthe, Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam’s presidency was marked by mounting chaos and violence that resulted in the occupation of the country by U.S. Marines. Sam was proclaimed president when his predecessor, Joseph Davilmar Théodore,…
[ad_1] The intention behind the Ogé Revolt was to force the french colonists to allow voting rights for free men of colors. Those involved with Ogé, such as Jean-Baptiste Chavannes were of wealthy families. It is important to mention that…
[ad_1] An affranchis delegate in France and leader of a mulatto revolt. He had been educated in Paris and was the son of a wealthy butcher or coffee plantation owner in Le Cap. He led a revolt against the white…
[ad_1] In October 1790, he arrived in Saint-Domingue. Meeting with Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, another free man of color, militiaman, and veteran of the American Revolution, Ogé soon gathered a force of about 250 to 300 free men of color. This group…
[ad_1] William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, born on February 23, 1868 and died on August 27, 1963. He was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up…
[ad_1] Joseph Davilmar Théodore (1847–1917) was President of Haïti from 7 November 1914 to 22 February 1915. Born in the town of Ennery in the northern half of the country, he began his career in the military, and organized the…