Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By 1840, Haiti had ceased to export sugar entirely, although large amounts continued to be grown for local consumption as taffia-a raw rum. However, Haiti continued to export coffee, which required little cultivation and grew semi-wild. The 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake destroyed the city, and the Sans-Souci Palace, killing 10,000 people.
This is a timeline of Haitian history, ... The city of Cap-Francais was founded on the north coast by French settlers. 1670:
The royalist "Grand blancs" settlers and wealthy slave owners and the "Petit blancs", modest or poor, or formerly, Republican settlers, unite in their common opposition to mulattoes and free colored people. The settlers arm their slaves, join forces with the soldiers of the Artois regiment and make themselves masters of Port-au-Prince.
Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c] [d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
White Haitians (French: Blancs haïtiens, [blɑ̃ (s)aisjɛ̃]; Haitian Creole: blan ayisyen), [1] are Haitians of predominant or full European descent. [2] There were approximately 20,000 whites around the Haitian Revolution, mainly French, in Saint-Domingue.
Haiti, History, and the Gods. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21368-5. Dubois, Laurent (2004). Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01826-5. Edwards, Bryan (1797). A Historical Survey of the French Colony on the Island of St. Domingo ...
This period of Haitian history commenced with the fall of the Kingdom of Haiti in the north and the reunification of Haiti in 1820 under Jean-Pierre Boyer. This period also encompassed Haitian occupation of Spanish Santo Domingo from 1822 to 1844, creating a unified political entity governing the entire island of Hispaniola .
Haitian Creole and culture first entered Cuba with the arrival of Haitian immigrants at the start of the 19th century. Haiti was a French colony, and the final years of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution brought a wave of French settlers and their Haitian slaves to Cuba.