The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804): A Different Route to Emancipation

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http://www.uky.edu/~popkin/Haitian%20Revolution%20Lecture.htm

The American Revolution of 1776 proclaimed that all men have “inalienable rights,” but the revolutionaries did not draw what seems to us the logical conclusion from this statement: that slavery and racial discrimination cannot be justified. The creation of the United States led instead to the expansion of African-American slavery in the southern states. It took the Civil War of 1861-65 to bring about emancipation...

...Despite Haiti’s small size, the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 was a major event in world history. It posed the question of what it would mean if people of color insisted that the promises of freedom made by the American and French Revolutions also applied to them. The Haitian Revolution was the forerunner of modern anticolonial movements in the Third World.

[malaise]

1. Do you know that the Haitian constitution

was the first one on the planet to outlaw slavery.

[EFerrari]

2. . . .

:cry:

[arthritisR_US]

5. Wow, I didn't know that...a day doesn't go by where I don't learn something new, thanks :-) n/t

[malaise]

6. Jamaicans never forget that

Once from here or anywhere else reached Haiti they were free men and women.

[arthritisR_US]

8. do you know of any good books on Haiti's history? n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

[anonymous171]

4. The American revolution was so radical that it scared its own leaders.

[Blue_Tires]

7. i still surprised at how many don't know that history...