HAITI

Ethnic groups:Black 95%, Mulatto and white 5%
Population:10,173,800
Languages: Haitian Creole, French
Roughly 80 percent of Haitians are Roman Catholic, while fewer than one in five claims to be Protestant. Roughly 95 percent of Haitians – regardless of religious affiliation – hold at least some Voodoo beliefs or superstitions.
Unemployment: 80%
Literacy Rate: 49%
Life Expectancy: 63 years
Access to Safe Water: 64%
School Enrollment: 50%
Number of Orphans: 400,000

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To develop coffee, cotton and sugar cane plantations, the French imported thousands of slaves from Africa. By the late 1700s, African slaves outnumbered the French in Haiti by ten to one.
On January 1, 1804, Haiti gained its independence from France, and became the second oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, after the U.S. Haitians credit Voodoo for the overthrow of the French.
During radical ex-priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s second term as Haitian president, the government established Voodoo as a state religion along with Catholicism.
More than 70 different dictators ruled Haiti between 1804-1915.
Author, statesmen, and former-slave Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) was the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti from 1889 -1891.

Labadee

Citadelle Laferriere

Musee de Pantheon Nationale

Basin Bleu

Sans Sousi Palace

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