Tags Black historian Carter G. Woodson
Tag: Black historian Carter G. Woodson
For a revolutionary Black History Month
Africans in Haiti, by the tens of thousands, broke their chains and though penniless, hungry and scarred by the ravages of bondage, found weapons and the will to fight for freedom against the defenders of slavery: France, Britain, and Spain. They did what no “slave” army had ever done in modern or ancient history. They defeated an empire.