He is Henry Christophe, then a boy of 12 ... Then there was a lengthy civil war. Christophe was eventually named king in 1811. How did a monarchy emerge from all this tumult? Daut: Haiti first ...

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 ...

Marlene Daut, a historian and expert on the Haitian Revolution, is the author of “The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.” ...