Professor Bayyinah Bello speaks on the Haitian Revolution of 1791

This is Haitian Professor Bayyinah Bello’s full lecture on the Haitian Revolution of 1791. Led by Dutty Boukman, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture the revolution toppled one of the greatest empires known to man and change the course of history.

Bayyinah Bello is a Haitian historian, teacher, writer, and humanitarian worker, who in her earlier career spent 15 years living and traveling in West Africa, including four years in Nigeria, as well as in Benin, Togo, and other countries in the region.

Now based in Port-au-Prince, she is the founder of an organization for historical research called Fondation Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur Dessalines, popularly known as Fondasyon Félicité, named after Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur Dessalines the Empress consort of Haiti and wife of revolutionary leader of Haiti Jean-Jacques Dessalines. In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the non-profit organization Friends of Fondation Félicité was set up to directly support FF, focusing on rebuilding the country. She is also a professor of history at the State University of Haiti.