CAUSES OF THE REVOULUTION
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- Slave Revolts Begin (1791)
- thats what you get!
- Slaves started the revolt by killing thousands of white plantation owners and burning hundreds of plantations.
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- Slavery in Saint Domingue
- Help Me i dont want to do this anymore!
- Enslaved people in the French colony of Saint Domingue worked under terrible conditions and wanted to be free.
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- Toussaint L’Ouverture Became Leader
- I AM YOUR LEADER AND WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER!!!! WE WILL GET FREEDOM
- Toussaint L’Ouverture became the leader and fought for the freedom of all enslaved people. France freed all slaves, and Toussaint’s forces teamed up with them against Britain.
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- Saint Domingue Gains Independence and is renamed Haiti (1803-1804)
- Independence!
- Napoleon diverts troops from the Louisiana territory to Saint Domingue. By April, Napoleon anticipates failure and agrees to sell the Louisiana territory to the United States. French forces are dealt a final defeat in November.After defeating French forces, Jean Jacques Dessalines declares independence of Saint-Domingue and the creation of the sovereign nation of Haiti
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- Louverture Switches Sides
- Spanish and French agreement.
- Louverture and French agreement.
- British being defeated.
- In 1794, France freed all slaves, and Toussaint’s forces teamed up with them against Britain.
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