1791: Enlightenment Ideas and Revolutions Inspire Revolts
We have to fight to gain independence!
1793: Haitian Army vs French Army
Haiti for the win!
Haiti was a French colony known as St. Domingue. Its slave based crops had been fast-growing and successful but the living conditions of those slaves were terrible. They were being used for labor and treated harshly by people who were profiting off them.
1799: Napoleon Seeks to Restore Slavery
I'm now the Consul-for-life!
Enlightenment ideas and the news of the French Revolution spread in Haiti. Slaves met up and demanded the government for their rights. When the governor refused, they started to come together to fight for independence.
1803: The French Surrenders
We surrender!
England and Spain enter a conflict, with England aligned with the French plantation economy and the Spanish, positioned in other areas of Hispaniola, aligned against France. Louverture and other rebel forces join Spanish forces to fight against the French. Under siege by opponents, French colonial authorities issue decrees that certain slaves be freed and conditions of others must be improved.
1804: Haiti's Independence
Napoleon declared himself Consul-for-life and sought to restore the old social conditions. This meant that slavery would return so the people weren't happy and continued to stick together and fight. For a few months, Haiti remained under Napoleon's rule.
Haiti was in aid and had diseases that the French weren't immune to. The French soldiers eventually fell victim to weapons and diseases. On November 9, 1803, colonial authorities surrendered.
After the French surrendered, Haiti was officially declared independent on January 1, 1804. Haiti became the world's first black-led republic and the first independent Caribbean state. But this came at a crippling cost, it had to pay for compensation as well as get cut off from trades from around the world.
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