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By Gary Oswald In 1820, in the aftermath of King Henry’s suicide, troops from the Southern Republic of Haiti invaded the Northern Kingdom...

By Gary Oswald The men who would later become Emperor Dessalines, King Henry and President Pétion had all been loyal soldiers of France...

By Gary Oswald The goal of the original slave uprising in Haiti was simply that they didn’t want to be slaves anymore. These were people...

By Gary Oswald In August 1791 a number of plantation slaves met in the woods of Bois Caïman in North Haiti. That meeting was the starting...

By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By Gary Oswald ​ 1578 - The Portuguese Empire was one of the first and most powerful Global Empires. It ruled land in South America, West...

By Gary Oswald In the previous articles we have discussed the development of Dahomey in the late 19th century as it ran into the limits...

By Gary Oswald In the previous article, I talked about the Kingdom of Dahomey the shift in power there during the 19th century, when the...

By Gary Oswald Africa is a treasure trove for Alternate History for the simple reason that culturally, economically and politically it...