African American History Novel
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- Causes
- Key event
- Key event
- The French came to Saint Domingue and started slavery. So the enslaves rebelled and started the Haitian Revolution
- Adams
- The rebels burned down sugar plantations
- Jefferson
- They killed many whites aswell
- Outcome
- Adams never owned slaves and thought the institution was immoral. He was more interested in maintaining trade and reducing the threat of piracy by Haitian rebels.
- Under Jefferson's administration, aid to the Haitian rebels was cut off. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the U.S. government refused to acknowledge its sovereignty.
- Free black leaders referenced the revolution in their demands for equal rights. The number of organized slave rebellions in the U.S. also increased after Haiti gained independence.
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