Introduction to Part 5, chapter 16

The Haitian Revolution 1791-1804

            The Atlantic Revolution impacted North American, France, Haiti, and Latin America.   Attacks were all connected and embarked a great mass of mobilization of social and economic change in America. These costly wars weakened the states and thus influenced France, and Britain to battle conflicts in particular, with the Atlantic World starting from 1775.  Antislavery movements began particularly in Haiti which sparked the Haitian Revolution.   Slaves wanted slavery to end.  Slaves wanted freedom and equality. Haiti was a French colony known as Saint Domingue.   Toussaint Louverture, a slave resisted the foreign French power.  He managed along with his successors to fight for the rights of man regardless of color and defeated Napoleon.  This revolt challenged the slave system in North America also. Toussaint Louverture was known as the “black Napolean” who sought justice and equality. 

I strongly believe that the Haitian Revolution was another influence necessary to change America’s attitude toward slavery. The grave injustices done to Haiti by United States and France employed many revolutionary movements afterwards.   Even though Haiti won independence against the white politicians, the tyranny remains clear.  Furthermore, through Toussaint Louverture commitment for justice, his unwavering pursuit of the abolition of slavery succeeded.