05/19/2021
Haitian flag day: A day full of meaning and power for all Afro-descendants around the world. That of the first free black republic in the world!
The Haitian revolution is the first successful slave revolt in the modern world. Historians traditionally place his departure during the ceremony at Bois-Caïman, in August 1791. The flagwas adopted on May 18 1803. It established Haiti in 1804 as the first free black republic in the world was born. After the departure of the French, Jean-Jacques Dessalines gave Saint-Domingue its Indian name of Haiti (Ahatti) and declared Republic on January 1, 1804 in Gonaïves.