Unfortunately, Jenson says, newspapers in the early 19th century did not generally keep good records. Indeed, poor record keeping during the first 50 years of Haiti's independence makes this era of ...

By the end of the 19th century, Sephardic Jews began arriving in Haiti from Lebanon, Egypt and Syria. Bigio’s uncle came here from Aleppo, Syria, in 1896, and his father arrived 20 years later.

(CNN)-- Haiti's poverty has been much discussed since ... considered Toussaint one of the greatest self-made men of the 19th century. Caribbean migration to the United States, beginning in the ...