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Jean-Pierre Boyer and American black migration
During the 1820s, six thousand black Americans were taken to Haiti as part of a migration scheme in which President Jean-Pierre Boyer had a heavy hand. It followed Haiti's establishment as a free black state and was an open invitation for...
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passage of resolution designating June 19, 2018, as "Juneteenth Independence Day"
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) today announced the passage of their resolution designating June...
August 23: Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
August 23 of each year, is the day of observance for International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. The day has been...
The "Ark of Return" a Masterpiece of Remembrance and Triumph
A United Nations international panel of five judges picked Haitian-American Rodney Leon's modernistic and abstract sculpture as the winning art...
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, Saint-Domingue
Hundreds of years of African slavery have been whittled down by most of the world as 'that thing most wished forgotten'. However, on Friday the 23rd...
The French Revolution in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) from 1788 to 1790
The French Revolution begins in June 1788 with the Third Estate assembling in the tennis court at Versailles to draft a new constitution and declare...
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