Standing alongside the armed soldiers depicted in the monument is a young drummer boy. He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12, and the future king of Haiti. Born in 1767 in the British colony of ...

Sans-Souci Palace was once the home of King Henri Christophe I of Haiti, a former slave who became a key leader in the 1804 Haitian Revolution, when the small nation gained independence from France.

Thanks to Park Street's extensive import network, King Henri Christophe Spirits will now be able to import large volumes of its handcrafted Haitian spirit—produced at its distilleries near the ...

From enslaved child to revolutionary war hero, Henry Christophe's life was anything but ordinary. We're diving into this incredible history with Marlene Daut, author of "The first and last king of ...

Some of them often gathered in the billiard room of the Hotel de la Couronne where their scores were marked by a coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation ...

the first and only King of Haiti Henri Christophe, and others. Their stories have been chronicled and commemorated through time. Courtesy of the artist, Francois Cauvin Marie Jeanne Lamartiniére ...

Two centuries ago this month, France pulled off one of history’s greatest armed extortions: After the first three leaders of a newly freed Haiti refused to cave in to hefty French demands to ...

The storied leaders of the Haitian Revolution that erupted in 1791 and led to the country’s independence in 1804—Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henry Christophe—are giants of world ...

the first and only King of Haiti Henri Christophe, and others. Their stories have been chronicled and commemorated through time. Yet there were also women who had key roles in the fight for Haiti ...

Historian Daut (Awakening the Ashes) offers a powerful biography of Henry Christophe (1767-1820), who fought for, defected from, and ultimately ruled over Haiti. She first sketches out Christophe ...