La Revolucion Haitiana

Revolution came to the French slaveholding colony of Saint Domingue in 1791.
the Haitian Revolution banished slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy, the three foundational institutions of the post-Columbian dispensation in the Americas.
The thoroughgoing transformation in Saint Domingue ended slavery in an entire society,
the Haitian Revolution left a deep imprint on slavery in theAmericas, for masters and slaves alike. Neither would be quite the same again. More broadly, the Haitian Revolution powerfully influenced major changes in the Atlantic political economy, and thereby in the course of world history.
The Haitian Revolution represented a culmination of decades of armed struggle
the Haitian Revolution electrified African-descended people all over the Americas, the enslavedmajority along with the nominally free minority. Haiti became the bellwether of black freedom in the Atlantic world, albeit one that would not be replicated, although not for want of trying.
the Haitian Revolution was a central moment in the evolution of the black international, forcefully demarcating the two major paradigms in black internationalism that emerged in the Age of Revolution: therevolutionary and revivalist traditions.
the Haitian Revolution continued to reverberate into the twentieth century, becoming both a cultural trope and a spark for activist politics in various parts of global Africa following the U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1915.
The most fervent partisans of the French Revolution in Saint Domingue were mulattos, their ideological armor its touchstone document, theRights of Man and Citizen. Most of the colony’s whites, unmoved by revolutionary idealism and unconvinced of the mulattos’ humanity, disdainfully rejected their demands for full citizenship rights. The ensuing confrontation worsened, and soon white and mulatto militias were at war.1
It was then that the slaves made their move, determined to extract freedom from chaos.
Thus did the FrenchRevolution grant the mulattos their long-sought wish: equality with the whites, which is not to be confused with full racial equality, since the shift left slavery intact;
This time around, it was not just slavery but also colonialism
By 1798, peace had returned to the colony.
Slavery had ended, the plantations lay in ruins, most of the whites had fled, and blacks were in charge. The world of SaintDomingue had been turned upside down.
Instead of redistributing the land to the freed people, as they evidently desired, he resurrected the plantations. The workers, although now paid, were bound to the worksite, as in the days of slavery.

His hatred of black folk every bit the equal of his vainglory, Napoleon intended to reestablish the old regime in the colonies, beginning with Saint Domingue,where the freed people would be put back in chains and the mulattos returned to social and political helotry.
There he would die a cruel death. This was, perhaps, the nadir of the Haitian Revolution. Whatever his flaws and failings, and they were numerous and serious, Toussaint had guided the struggle from near collapse to its greatest triumphs.
Their weapons included live burnings, crucifixions,and imported killer dogs specially trained to tear black people apart.8 The people of Saint Domingue now had something to fight for: their liberty, indeed, their very lives.
Toussaint was killed now the people had to fight for their lives because the French wanted to put back the old regime
In victory, he made good on the rest of his promise, declaring independence and getting rid of thewhites, expelling or killing the ones who remained.
The Haitian Revolution, of course, was far bigger than the colony of Saint Domingue. It was not just imperial powers and slaveholders, however, who staked out claims on revolutionary Haiti.
By its very nature and its impact on world history, the Haitian Revolution had major black internationalist implications, among others.
It defined Haiti as a...