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Ossie Davis Tells The Story Of The 1991 Haitian Coup D'Etat Of September 29, 1991, When President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Elected Eight Months Earlier, Was Deposed By Haitian Army Officers, Sending Aristide Into Exile In Danger Of His Life And Raising Questions About American Policy Towards Haiti (Color, 1991, 58 Minutes), PLUS 2 BONUS TITLES: 1) FRONTLINE: SHOWDOWN IN HAITI, The Awful Aftermath Of The 1991 Haitian Coup And The Subsequent Disgraceful Conduct Of The Haitian Government Towards The United States (Color, 1993, 58 Minutes), And 2) YOU ARE THERE: THE CHARRED CITY OF LE CAP: MAY 6, 1802, Hypothetical News Coverage Of The Peace Talk Betrayal Of General Toussaint Louverture, Former Slave Leader Of The Haitian Revolution (The Haitian War Of Independence) At His Meeting With Divisional-General Charles Leclerc, Leader Of Napoleon's Saint-Domingue Expedition To Regain And Re-Enslave The French Caribbean Colony Of Saint-Domingue, In This Episode Of The Renowned 1947-50 Weekly Historical Dramatization Series By The Famed World War II Staff Of CBS News, Here Narrated By John Charles Daly, The First National Correspondent To Report The Attack On Pearl Harbor And The Death Of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Audio Only, May 30, 1948, 30 Minutes) -- All Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As A 2 Volume Video Download MP4 Set Or A 2 Disc Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD Set!

*August 11, 2026: Updated And Expanded: Updated With YOU ARE THERE: THE CHARRED CITY OF LE CAP, And Expanded From A Single Volume To A Twp Volume Set!

*July 16, 2023: Updated And Upgraded: Updated With FRONTLINE: SHOWDOWN IN HAITI, And Upgraded From A Standard Format DVD To An Archival Quality Dual Layer Format DVD!

The 1991 Haitian Coup D'Etat took place on September 29, 1991 when President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, elected eight months earlier in the 1990-91 Haitian General Election, was deposed by the Armed Forces of Haiti. Haitian military officers, primarily Army General Raoul Cedras, Army Chief of Staff Phillipe Biamby and Chief of the National Police, Michel Francois led the coup. Aristide was sent into exile, his life only saved by the intervention of US, French and Venezuelan diplomats.

The Saint-Domingue Expedition was a large French military invasion sent by Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul, under his brother-in-law Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc in an attempt to regain French control of the Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola, and curtail the measures of independence and abolition of slaves taken by the former slave Toussaint Louverture. It departed in December 1801 and, after initial success, ended in a French defeat at the Battle of Vertieres and the departure of French troops in December 1803. The defeat ended Napoleon's goal of a French empire in the West.

The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was one of the only known slave rebellions in human history that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery (though not from forced labour) and ruled by former captives. Vincent Oge's 1790 revolt by free Mulattoes (of mixed French and African ancestry) pressured the French Revolutionary government to grant them citizenship in May 1791, leading to further clashes with slave owners that destabilized Saint-Domingue and led to the slave revolt on 21 August 1791, which ended with the former colony's independence on 1 January 1804, with the ex-slave Toussaint Louverture emerging as its most prominent general. The successful revolution was a defining moment in the history of the Atlantic World and the revolution's effects on the institution of slavery were felt throughout the Americas. The end of French rule and the abolition of slavery in the former colony was followed by a successful defense of the freedoms the former slaves had won, and with the collaboration of already free people of color, of their independence from white Europeans. The revolution was the largest slave uprising since Spartacus' unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic nearly 1,900 years earlier, and challenged long-held European beliefs about alleged Black inferiority and about slaves' ability to achieve and maintain their own freedom. The rebels' organizational capacity and tenacity under pressure inspired stories that shocked and frightened slave owners in the hemisphere. Compared to other Atlantic revolutions, the events in Haiti have received relatively little public attention in retrospect: historian Michel-Rolph Trouillot characterizes the historiography of the Haitian Revolution as being "silenced" by that of the French Revolution.