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The Haitian Revolution - Haiti: A Slave Society - Extra History - Part 1

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
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šŸ“œ The Haitian Revolution
-Haiti: A Slave Society - The Haitian Revolution is a unique historical event in many ways. It was both an offshoot of the French Revolution, but also an anti-colonialist revolution. It was also the second American nation to successfully win its independence. But before we can talk about the Revolution itself, we have to talk about how influential Haiti was to France's economy and how it's complicated social structure primed it for revolt and revolution. Because here, in the colony built upon the countless bodies of the enslaved, sugar is king. But not for long.

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Kwabena Ofori Osei
Kwabena Ofori Osei 30 days ago

The Free People Color (mulatto children between the union of an enslaved African women and white French men) was against the abolition of slavery in Haiti, they often saw themselves as different and better than the enslaved Africans, and opposed the idea of liberation, emancipation and freedom from slavery, bondage and oppression for the enslaved Africans in Haiti.

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