The Saint-Domingue epic -- Louisiana, land of welcome -- The refugee community -- Influencing Louisiana's economic pattern -- A new social era? -- The refugees' politics : from visibility to influence -- A still unfathomed cultural legacy : refugees in Creole New Orleans
In the Haitian diaspora, as in Haiti itself, the majority of Haitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms of Christianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, where approximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian…
"En 1937 el dictador dominicano Leónidas Trujillo desata una feroz persecución contra los haitianos. En ella pierden la vida cientos de hombres, mujeres y niños que han llegado a República Dominicana buscando trabajo. Algunos pocos logran huir y salvar su vida. Pero será una vid…
The Haitian Revolution began in 1791 as a slave revolt on the French colonial island of Saint Domingue and ended thirteen years later with the founding of an independent black republic. Waves of French West Indians-slaves, white colonists, and free blacks-fled the upheaval and f…
