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Haitians Mark 200th Anniversary of Slave Rebellion

HeadlineNov 19, 2003

And in Haiti, thousands celebrated Tuesday the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Vertieres which led to the hemisphere’s first successful slave rebellion and the formation of the world’s first black republic.

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