The Revolution Of The Haitian Revolution

The success and vigorous pursuit of freedom from oppression in the French Revolution inspired the Haitians to believe that they were capable of doing the same; the Haitians, being treated like animals, wanted their inherent rights. The overbearing French governing body had collapsed and the Third Estate was likely to receive a brighter future. The Haitians were still locked down as property and animals, but they craved to have the inherent rights that all men are privileged to. The French got their rights while the Haitians did not; this was quite the volatile scenario ready to fall off the self and spark revolution.

a. According to Jacob Crawfurd of crawfurd.dk With the French arrival a revolution started once again and when it was finally over, an army of black slaves had their victory against the army of Napoleon. On January 1st 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, an African-born ex-slave could declare Haiti independent. It was the first black republic in the world and the first country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery completely

The Haitian and French Revolutions both aimed to overthrow the unjust influences of the French monarchy and ultimately succeeded in positively obtaining more social equality for the majority of their people, with differing impacts on their political and economic structures. The Haitian slaves in Haiti and the Third Estate in French were both large social classes that had very little power and influence in their countries. By ignoring the welfare of these populations, the ruling classes were eventually overthrown with significant impacts on the political, social, and economic futures of both France and Haiti

The Haitian Revolution was one of the most important slave revolts in Latin American history. It started a succession of other revolutionary wars in Latin America and ended both colonialism and imperialism in the Americas. The Haitian Revolution affected people from all social castes in Haiti including the indigenous natives, mestizos, mulattos and the Afro-Latin. The idea of starting a rebellion against France began with the colony’s white elite class seeking a capitalist market. These elites in the richest mining and plantation economies felt that the European governments were limiting their growth and restricting free trades. However, the Afro-Latin, mestizos and mulattos turned the Haitian Revolution into a war for equality and built a new state. The Haitian Revolution, with the support of it large slave population and lower class citizens, eliminated slavery and founded the Republic of Haiti. Tin this essay I will discuss how mestizos, mulattos and the Afro-Latin Americans population in Haiti participate in the fight for independence and how they creation of new republics.

As a result of being outnumbered, slave owners feared rebellions which would remove them from their position of power. This fear is largely to blame for the especially hard conditions for slaves in the colony of Saint Domingue. On the majority of plantations for example slaves were forbidden to meet with other slaves, and harsh overseers were employed to make sure that the slaves cooperated.

A social hierarchy developed, with peninsulares at the top, then creoles, and mestizos, mulattoes, zambos, then finally Africans. As time passed and the slave trade progressed, Africans were treated less and less like human beings. They were seen as property, and they were always replaceable because there was always a new shipment of slaves. Work on a sugar plantation was hard, and those who worked there did not have a long life expectancy. “Sugar production was hard, year-round work and sometimes around-the-clock work. While it was capital intensive in terms of mechanical and human machines, it required large amounts of carefully coordinated work under miserable conditions….”(Document 4). Slaves are needed in the social system because they are the ones doing all the dangerous work. Nobody from the upper classes wants to do what they

While the black slaves had been torn from their culture and their land. Not only were they forced into a situation where everything was different, but they were torn from their families. They colonist even had a system that was both Psychological and Physical to try and discipline the slaves. The slaves rarely submitted willingly.

It was during the late half of the eighteenth century that would experience a series of turbulence across the Atlantic World. In a time that can be called an era of revolution, the Atlantic World faced a multitude of uprisings. The American Revolution in 1765 would be the start of the age of revolutions, and would later inspire the revolutions of other countries across the Atlantic, such as the French Revolution in 1789, the Haitian Revolution in 1791, and later the Latin American Revolutions during the early nineteenth century. The events of these revolutions created shockwaves across the Atlantic that would bring new developments that had a lasting impact on the world. However, since slavery was an integral part to what had transpired in

Slaves were valued more for work and not their personality and to keep them happy, slaves were granted rights such as owning their own property and the ability to cultivate it, they also had the ability to marry other African women, and they are were not segregated by the white endentured servants, in fact it was very common for white servants and slaves to bond and form relationships at taverns ( The downward Spiral). As a result of the demand of Tabaco in the Chesapeake bay, more slaves were brought into the New World. After the 1640s people began to be distinguished by the color of their skin rather than their social status, causing a lot of hostility towards the people of dark color and severing the bonds and relationships between servants and slaves. Life for any free slave was hard, especially for a freed woman. Most of the time, women would sacrifice their freedom and become a servant and bind their children to be servants in order to survive.

African-Americans have been oppressed since their arrival in America in 1619. Due to their differences in physical characteristics, Whites considered them an inferior race and therefore treated them as property, disregarding their human rights. After many years of exploitation and abuse, in 1791, slaves on the small island of Hispaniola revolted against French rule and successfully gained their freedom in 1804. It gave hope to African American slaves who, in turn, decided to stand against their masters and gain their freedom. Every one of those rebellions was extremely violent. They were so passionate about the cause and have been oppressed for so long that they targeted

In France at the time, "the relatively homogenous ethnicity allowed for the convenient and commonly accepted divisions of social ?estates?. By contrast, the colonies were culturally and ethnically plural. Rather than ?estates,? the colonies,...had ?castes?, whites, free persons of color, and the slaves" (Knight 203). While the black slaves formed about 80 percent of the population on the island of Saint Domingue, the upper strata was divided between color and class. The population of Saint Domingue at the time was classified into three main categories. Each main category was then subdivided. The whites were divided between the gran blancs and the petit blancs; the free blacks were usually referred to as the gens de couleur; and the slaves were called affranchis.

With the legalization of the practice, many Africans were taken as slaves and transported through the sea to provide labor in the American plantations. The process of slavery was performed in a very inhuman manner. In the slave trade, the blacks were regarded as trade goods and thus, they had no rights. At the dawn of the American Revolution, more than 20% of the population in all the American colonies was of African descent (Amadu, 2007). Robin, (2000) argues that, during the era of the revolution, more than half of all the African Americans lived in Maryland and Virginia. In Chesapeake, the black people made up to 60% of the total population. The majority of the African Americans were slaves. According to the official US census taken in 1790, only 8% of the black population was free (Dorsey, 2007). However, whether free or enslaved, the blacks in the American colonies established familial relationships, survival strategies and various forms of resistances to their conditions. As indicated above, the slaves were like farming tools to their owners and thus, their survival depended explicitly on the will of the plantation owner. The conditions of slavery were that, the workers got very low pay for great amounts of work done. Therefore, the African Americans formulated survival techniques to curb the effects of their worse conditions (Charles, 2003).

In 1791 revolution broke out in the French colony of Saint Domingue, later called Haiti. The Haitian Revolution resounded in communities surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. One of the wealthiest European outposts in the New World, the Caribbean island's western third had some of the largest and most brutal slave plantations. Slave laborers cultivated sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton, and they endured horrible death rates, requiring constant infusions of slaves from Africa. In 1789 roughly 465,000 black slaves lived in the French colony on the island, along with fewer than 31,000 whites. In addition, there were about 23,000 free blacks and mixed-race people called gens de couleur, who might own land and accrue wealth but had no political

They have denied the people liberty. There are often ten black slaves to each white man, and the blacks have no freedom to be heard of. In the north, for example, there are many fertile and rich sugar plantations isolated by large mountains ranges. These geographical boundaries trap slaves within their masters’ plantations with no means of escape. This condition leads to oppressive greedy white owners gaining increasing power and wealth from the slave’s hard work.

The beginning of slavery in the Caribbean can be traced back to the emergence of piracy in the 16th and 17th centuries. This eventually led to the promotion of slave trading and sugar plantations. While enslaved on the sugar plantations, slaves were treated very poorly. Plantation owners treated their slaves so poorly that most were undernourished and diseased. Slaves were even forced to work on their "spare" time to provide for their own needs. Needless to say, slaves encountered cruel punishment that we can’t even comprehend. The slaves however, continually resisted white supremacy causing much tension between the two social classes. Despite this, a new social class was emerging, the free coloureds. This