A Project 2025 adviser was exposed Thursday in a congressional hearing for defending slavery in Haiti. Mark Krikorian, an adviser for the right-wing manifesto, is the director of the Center for ...

France instituted slavery in the colony of Saint-Domingue on the western third of the island of Hispaniola – today’s Haiti – in the 17th century. In the late 18th century, the enslaved population ...

Haiti’s history is a chain of disasters stacked on top of one another. From slavery and colonial plunder to foreign debt and ...

Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1993. (Photo by Georges Merillon / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Last month, The New York Times made headlines with its front-page series about the billions ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

* Critics say restaveks are child slaves * Tradition deeply ingrained in culture of former colony * Children freely given by parents to life of servitude By Jim Loney PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 18 (Reuters) ...

A French propaganda engraving from 1825 depicts King Charles X bestowing freedom on a Black man kneeling before him in chains. 'S.M. Charles X, le bien-aimé, reconnaissant l’indépendance de St.

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Marlene L. Daut is a Professor of French and African ...