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- Why do free blacks and mulattoes get rights?! this is not good for my plantation!!!
- Well just like France, free people now have the ¨rights of man¨
- Get back to work you do not have a say in the rules
- We want the same rights as all the others, SLAVERY IS WRONG!!!
- Haiti was becoming aware of the revolution in France and that they fought for ¨the rights of man¨
- The black population began to question
- A small revolt is held by Toussaint L´L'Ouverture
- Eventually, Toussaint was able to free some slaves and gained a large following for his beliefs
- By 1798, Toussaint was named leader of the slave rebellion and the revolt was in full force
- In 1803, Napoleon´s army was weakened by yellow fever and nearly wiped out by the Haitians. He decided to retreat back to France and grant Haiti their freedom
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