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A merchant woman in Haiti. Social class in Haiti is defined by a class structure that groups people according to wealth, income, education, type of occupation, and membership in a specific subculture or social network. Race has also played an important factor in determining social class since the colonial period (1625–1804) when Haiti was the ...
Haitians. Haitians (French: Haïtiens, Haitian Creole: Ayisyen) are the citizens and nationals of Haiti. The Haitian people have their origins in Central and West Africa with the most spoken language being the French based Haitian Creole. The larger Haitian diaspora includes individuals that trace ancestry to Haiti and self-identify as Haitian ...
v. t. e. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin; French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒak dɛsalin]; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, and leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution. Initially regarded as governor-general, Dessalines ...
Some orthographies of Haitian Creole follow the etymology of the word by using r for [w] before a rounded vowel if it comes from an original [ɣ]: gro[ɡwo] ('big' cf. French gros[ɡʁo]). The official orthography follows the modern pronunciation of the word and uses w for [w] in all cases and so [ɡwo] is spelled gwo .
The Beheadings of Moca (Spanish: Degüello de Moca; French: Décapitation de Moca; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Moca) [3] was a massacre that took place in Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic) in April 1805 when the invading Haitian army attacked civilians as ordered by Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe, during their retreat to Haiti after the failed attempt to end French rule in ...
National Archives of Haiti. Coordinates: 18.538131°N 72.290196°W. The National Archives of Haiti were first established in 1860. [1] The archives hold the records of the office of the President and most government ministries. They are currently participating in the Digital Library of the Caribbean's Protecting Haitian Patrimony Initiative.[2]
Haiti. 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. [17][18] Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an ...
t. e. In the administrative divisions of Haiti, the department (French: département d'Haïti, pronounced [depaʁtəmɑ̃ d‿aiti]; Haitian Creole: depatman Ayiti) is the first of four levels of government. Haiti is divided administratively into ten departments, which are further subdivided into 42 arrondissements, 145 communes, and 571 ...