Haiti: The Decline after 1861 Franklin W. Knight, PhD (Editor’s Note: This is Part IV of IV of a four-part series recognizing Haiti and honoring this Caribbean country’s history-changing role in the hemisphere and the world. This series is written by noted historian Dr. Franklin W. Knight for The Ward Post) (22 June 2021) — Four inter-related factors explain the dramatic political and economic decline of Haiti during the later nineteenth century, a decline from which it never...
Haiti: The Period of Strife, 1790-1860 Franklin W. Knight, PhD (Editor’s Note: This is Part III of IV of a four-part series recognizing Haiti and honoring this Caribbean country’s history-changing role in the hemisphere and the world. This series is written by noted historian Dr. Franklin W. Knight for The Ward Post) (14 June 2021) — War in Saint-Domingue began in 1790 when the petits-blancs who controlled the Assembly of West Province independently wrote a constitution for the...
The Ward Post takes pleasure in reproducing in full this Statement issued in a Press Release from the Office of the Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies which provides a historical learning experience for the President of the United States and those who support or are silent on his imprudent, crass and uncouth depiction of Haiti. HAITI : Caribbean Dignity Unbowed The democratic, nation-building debt the American nation owes the Caribbean, and the Haitian nation in particular that...
