Traditions
The Haitian Calendar: Holidays and Key Dates
From Independence Day to Flag Day and Fèt Gede — the dates every Haitian family celebrates and remembers.
Haitian Independence
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Food & history
Soup Joumou: The Soup of Haitian Independence
Every January 1, Haitians everywhere share soup joumou — a pumpkin soup that celebrates the birth of a free Haiti.
History
January 1, 1804: How Haiti Became Free
How enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue won their freedom and created Haiti, the first free Black republic.