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Haiti became the world's first and oldest black republic in the New World, the first country to abolish slavery, the first Caribbean nation and the first Latin American country as a whole in the Americas to win independence from France and the second republic in the modern era after the United States. Between February and 22 April 1804 ...
Haiti's peasantry constituted approximately 75 percent of the total population. Unlike peasants in much of Latin America, most of Haiti's peasants had owned land since the early nineteenth century. Land was the most valuable rural commodity, and peasant families went to great lengths to retain it and to increase their holdings.
The underclass is predominantly black, with many being of Haitian background. [4] People of predominant European ancestry in Dominican Republic have an economic and social privilege, and have strong representation in politics, business and the media, while those of African ancestry are in the lowest strata of society. Thus in the country ...
Today, Black Christians still navigate the complex meaning of New Year’s Day—mired, as it was, with contradictory meanings of a violent past and the promise of the future—by continuing to ...
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 politics of Haiti takes place in the framework of a unitary semi-presidential republic, where the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. The politics of Haiti are considered historically unstable due to various coups d'état , regime changes, military juntas and internal conflicts.
In Haitian Creole, Vodou came to designate a specific style of dance and drumming, [54] before outsiders to the religion adopted it as a generic term for much Afro-Haitian religion. [55] The word Vodou now encompasses "a variety of Haiti's African-derived religious traditions and practices", [56] incorporating "a bundle of practices that ...
More than 50 years after a Haitian saxophonist and band leader by the name of Nemours Jean-Baptiste founded the new style of Haitian dance music that he called “Compas Direct,” the music is ...