Hidden Histories Tour - Britain and Haiti: A Forgotten History?

From 1791 to 1804, self-liberated enslaved people fought for their freedom in Saint Domingue freeing the colony from French rule and establishing Haiti as an independent nation. An often forgotten part of the Haitian Revolution is Britain's role and the failed attempt of the British Empire to colonise Haiti and reenslave people who were fighting for their freedom. 

Find out more about Britain and the Haitian Revolution with Nelson Cummins, Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire, in this short gallery talk. 

Image: Toussaint Louverture on Horseback © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883.  www.metmuseum.org