HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture, Saint-Domingue
1 Nov 2017
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What happens in france changes norm in haiti. News of american and french revolutions, moved the free people of colour to send petitions to the national assembly in france demanding that those rights be extended to them. The french rules that the fpoc would not get rights extended to them. Enormous slave revolt, impossible for the plantation owners to control, even with french troops to support. Britain and spain (enemies) decided this would be a good time to swoop in and steal the colony, results in war for 10 years: slaves & fpoc, *****4:30. Local movement developed to create a free republic in saint domingue, lead by. Toussaint l"ouverture: was winning, armies of mostly free slaves, defeating french and spanish, then napoleon becomes emperor, re-establishes slavery. Ideas of the enlightenment, atlantic revolutions will spread across the empires and be used against the europeans to crete independent societies luned 28 settembre 2015.
