From Saint Domingue to Haiti: The Haitian Revolution and US Reverberations.

On January 1, 1801, Toussaint Louverture declared France’s former colonial jewel free and renamed it Hayti to honor its Indigenous roots. But the road to freedom was not easy, each argument for and against slavery and freedom as varied and complex as the next. This course, examines the making of the first free Black republic in the western hemisphere - from the west African coast to debates in France and the United states that centered on equality, commerce and abolition - debates that continue to reverberate throughout the nation of Haiti and its people today.