On St. Domingue's rich northern plain, the heartland of its agricultural wealth, a large group of slaves representing many plantations met under the night sky in a remote spot called Alligator ...

On Aug. 21, 1791, enslaved Africans on the slave colony of St. Domingue revolted against French colonial rule. The revolt, which transformed itself into the Haitian Revolution, began 230 years ago ...

The interwoven history of St. Domingue, now Haiti, and New Orleans predates the founding of city. Haiti was the jumping off point for Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville when in 1698 ...

The radicalism of the Age of Revolution, as Scott so brilliantly shows, was invigorated as it moved from France to Saint-Domingue and then to Jamaica, Cuba, and back. The visions of the Jacobin ...

Leclerc wrote to Bonaparte on October 2, 1802, that the mission in Saint-Domingue could only succeed if the French were to “destroy all the Negroes of the mountains, men and women, to only keep ...

Haitian Author’s Decade-Long Odyssey Uncovers The Nation’s Triumphant, Tragic Past In 5-Book Series. Research for Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor ...

The Saint Domingue refugees come during what we think of as the territorial period. And this is between 1803, when the Louisiana Purchase takes place, and 1812, when Louisiana becomes a state.

In 1802, he dispatched 20,000 troops to Saint Domingue to depose Toussaint and reinstitute slavery. Toussaint was captured and exiled to France, where he died in prison the following year.

Things unfolded differently, but no less tragically, in Saint-Domingue. Under two generals who were sent to the island by Napoleon to, in his words, ...

Louis Domingue, once the Penguins’ third-string goalie and now its starter, has become a cult hero in Pittsburgh, leading the team to a 2-1 series lead over the Rangers.