Unveiling of a blue plaque to Marie-Louise Christophe, Haiti’s first and only queen.
The Haitian Revolution remains, without doubt, one of the most important events in world history. Though the triumphant history of Haiti, which became the first independent Black nation-state in 1804, and the first nation to permanently and universally abolish slavery, is widely overlooked, this is truer still of the histories of Haiti's heroines. In 1821, [...]