The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took his own life. Since that time, as the brilliant Yale historian Marlene L.

JANUARY 1ST SIGNIFIES THE START OF A NEW CALENDAR YEAR. AND FOR THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY, A COMMEMORATION OF INDEPENDENCE FROM FRENCH RULE. HAITI WAS THE FIRST NATION TO BE FOUNDED BY FORMERLY ENSLAVED ...

Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king reads like a historical novel of a bygone era with Black princes and knights, an elaborate dress code and a palace, Sans-Souci, to match.

The storied leaders of the Haitian Revolution that erupted in 1791 and led to the country’s independence in 1804—Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henry Christophe—are giants of world ...

BLACK MAJESTY—John W. Vandercook —Harpers ($2.50). The Man. Haiti is a hot island, of listless winds, of low and cloudy mountains. Most of the people who live there are black or brown or yellowish ...

Thanks to Park Street's extensive import network, King Henri Christophe Spirits will now be able to import large volumes of its handcrafted Haitian spirit—produced at its distilleries near the ...

Historian Daut (Awakening the Ashes) offers a powerful biography of Henry Christophe (1767–1820), who fought for, defected from, and ultimately ruled over Haiti. She first sketches out Christophe’s ...