Haiti: The History Of Haiti

The history of Haiti... Haiti is the second largest island in the Greater Antilles. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean behind Cuba. The history of Haiti began on December 5 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus who had found the island called Haiti. But he was on the western Atlantic ocean. But now to tell you the history of Haiti. Haiti had a uniquely tragic history before the arrival of Europeans, Arawak (also known as Taino) and Carib Indians inhabited the island of Hispaniola.By the mid-eighteenth century, Saint Domingue’s society had settled into a rigid hierarchical structure based on skin color, class, and wealth. At the bottom of the social ladder were the African-born plantation slaves; slightly above