While Haiti was isolated from the world, fictionalized accounts of its only monarch, Henry Christophe, were often written and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toussaint was captured and exiled, but the fighting continued under the leadership of Jean Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines proclaimed himself ruler of the ...

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.” ...