Uploaded by Elizabeth Giles

Haitian Revolution Lesson

advertisement
2 Cuba
1
Mexico
3
6
4 Jamaica
7 Belize
8 Guatemala
10 Costa Rica
5 Haiti
9 Nicaragua
Puerto Rico
Dominican
Republic
FRENCH SANTO
DOMINGUE (HAITI)
 Sugar, Coffee, indigo
 Slave labor
 Richest colony
BOUKMAN REBELLION, 1791
SLAVE REVOLT→ REVOLUTION
 Secret meetings-Vodoo
 Armies
Rebelling slaves
 Free men of color
 Royalist whites
 Republican whites
 Toussaint Louverture
 Rebel leader
 Spanish support
 French Revolution: Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen


Toussaint Louverture’s army won
victories
10,000 whites fled Santo Domingue
(Haiti)


French National Assembly
enfranchised free men of color

maintained slavery



Racial violence:
petit blancs v. gens de couleur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_onU5s2U&t=16s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_o-nU5s2U
Download