‘The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe’ By Marlene L. Daut Knopf, 644 Pages. Henry Christophe (1767-1820) not only had himself proclaimed king of Haiti, he also ...

Henri Christophe’s attempt to create a Haitian court modeled on the likes of France’s Louis VI is also played for broad laughs, the newly named nobles stumbling and bewildered by the sudden, ...

Henri Christophe, the first king of Haiti who implemented a monarchy in the North of Haiti in 1811 while his rival Alexandre Pétion implemented a democracy in the South, remains undoubtedly one of the ...

BLACK MAJESTY—John W. Vandercook —Harpers ($2.50). The Man. Haiti is a hot island, of listless winds, of low and cloudy mountains. Most of the people who live there are black or brown or ...

the rise and fall of henri christophe. AND JOINING US NOW IS MARLENE DOWD. SHE’S THE AUTHOR, SCHOLAR AND CURRENT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES AT YALE UNIVERSITY.

As we continue to mark Black History Month, we're shining a light on Haiti's first and only king. From enslaved child to revolutionary war hero, Henry Christophe's life was anything but ordinary.

If you want to go: Stanford Lecture with Professor Marlene Daut, “Henry Christophe: King in a World of Kings,” will take place at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Richter Library at the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...