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Haitian Revolution

Haitian Revolution. Duvalier, 1957-1986 and his Tonton Macoutes Edwidge Danticat, Dew Breaker (2004). St .Domingue, 1789. Slave Revolt.

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Haitian Revolution

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  1. Haitian Revolution

  2. Duvalier, 1957-1986 and his Tonton Macoutes • Edwidge Danticat, Dew Breaker (2004)

  3. St .Domingue, 1789

  4. Slave Revolt

  5. On April 4, 1792, the National Assembly of France declared that “the hommes de couleur and nègres libres must enjoy, along with the white colons, equality of political rights.” This means that henceforth, there will only be two kinds of people in the French colonies: free and enslaved. Legal distinctions on the basis of race have been outlawed!

  6. 1792 decree As one historian wrote: “the slave insurgents of Saint-Domingue had expanded the political horizon in a paradoxical way, making it necessary to grant racial equality in order to save slavery.” Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World, p. 131

  7. Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803)

  8. Statute of Dessalines, Cap-Haitien

  9. Common Routes St. Domingue-Louisiana

  10. Jean-Jacques Dessalines

  11. Interview of Laurent Dubois with Madison Smartt Bell, Common Place, July 2007

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