the phrase became popular after World War II. It seems clear that the wealthy Caribbean island Haiti, which gained its independence from France in 1804, and had experienced some real economic growth should also be enjoying real economic development in the twenty first century. What is not clear...
On January 1, 1804, Dessalines took the final step of declaring independence from France and, with that, ended colonialism and slavery. Dessalines renamed the country Haiti, after its name in Arawak. The Haitians created the new flag by deriving the French flag that symbolized the three cla...