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- You will work despite how tired you are so that I can benefit out of your labor.
- The slaves in Saint-Dominigue were treated horribly by their landowners and suffered brutal conditions. As a result, there were frequent tensions and conflict between them.
- I can't stand it! I want to be free.
- The slaves working on the plantations demanded freedom, equality, and independence. This is how the Haitian Revolution began.
- Challenge accepted.
- On the May of 1791, there was a civil war between the gens de couleur and the white landowners.
- Take this!
- By 1793, Toussaint L'Ouverture built a strong, skillful army, consisting of enslaved Africans and maroons, which helped him establish an independent government.
- All the Haitians! Independent!
- By 1797, L' Ouverture's army controlled most of the island of St. Domingue.
- We control all this now. Yay!!
- After taking control of St. Domingue, L' Ouverture promulgated the Haitian Constitution of 1801 that granted equality and citizenship to all residents.
- Everyone deserves to be treated equally.
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