Christopher Columbus claimed Haiti when he landed there in 1492. Arawak Indians were the original inhabitants of this island when Columbus arrived. Later, the island became a colony of England. Haiti remained virtually unsettled until the mid-17th century, when French colonists, importing ...

The European colonies in the Americas were built upon the backs of the African slaves whose unpaid labor produced immense capital for Atlantic economies. Taken from their African homelands and thrust into the Americas, Black slaves labored under the hot Western sun to produce cash crops to add to ...

The European colonies in the Americas were built upon the backs of the African slaves whose unpaid labor produced immense capital for Atlantic economies. Taken from their African homelands and thrust into the Americas, Black slaves labored under the hot Western sun to produce cash crops to add to ...

Haiti officially Republic Of Haiti, Haitian Creole Repiblik Dayti, French République D'haiti, island country of the West Indies, the only independent French-speaking republic in the Americas, occupying the western third of the island of Hispaniola and several nearby small islands. It is situ...

HAITI Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispanola (the Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two thirds). Haiti has an area of 27,750 square kilometers including the islands of Tortuga, Gonave (Ile de la Gonave) Les Cayemites and Vache. The are occupied by Haiti is slightly la...