Haiti Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Emigration=== {{Main|Haitian diaspora}} There is a large Haitian diaspora community, predominantly based in the US and Canada, France, and the wealthier Caribbean islands. Emigrants from Haiti have constituted a segment of American and Canadian society since before [[Haitian Revolution|the independence of Haiti from France]] in 1804.<ref name="HammondCanadaHaiti2010">{{cite web|last1=Hammond|first1=Stuart|title=Canada and Haiti: A brief history|url=http://canadahaitiaction.ca/canada-haiti-history|website=Canada Haiti Action Network|access-date=13 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202034558/http://canadahaitiaction.ca/canada-haiti-history|archive-date=2 February 2016|date=2010}}</ref><ref name="PBSResourceBank">{{cite web|title=People & Events French West Indian refugees in Philadelphia 1792 β 1800|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p466.html|website=PBS.org|access-date=13 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063339/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p466.html|archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref> Many influential early American settlers and black freemen, including [[Jean Baptiste Point du Sable]] and [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], were of Haitian origin.<ref name="Kinzie 1856 190">{{Harvnb|Kinzie|1856|p=190}}</ref><ref name="Meehan 1963 445">{{Harvnb|Meehan|1963|p=445}}</ref><ref name="Cohn2009">{{cite book|last=Cohn|first=Scotti|title=It Happened in Chicago|year=2009|work=Globe Pequot|isbn=978-0-7627-5056-6|pages=2β4|publisher=Globe Pequot Press }}</ref><ref>Lewis, p. 18.{{incomplete short citation|date=February 2023}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page