French president Emmanuel Macron announced a joint commission to examine reparations for Haiti, but some are calling for ...

Haiti, which declared its independence on Jan. 1, 1804, and defeated Napoleon’s army soon after, didn’t have the money to pay ...

French President Emmanuel Macron says it was an injustice imposed on Haiti when it was forced to pay a colossal indemnity in ...

On April 17, 1825, Charles X, brother to Louis XVIII and the new French king, performed a sudden about-face. Charles X issued ...

After two centuries, a contrite tone from President Emmanuel Macron, though no talk of reparations for French actions that ...

“In a world that was still largely colonial and based on slavery, it was seen as an aberration that former slaves were able to free themselves,” says Frédéric Thomas, a Haiti expert at the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is to set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France's past with its former ...

Over the years, French governments have acknowledged the historic wrong of slavery in Haiti and other former colonies but like other former colonial powers have resisted calls for reparations.