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THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
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CAUSES
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SLAVES WERE DISSATISFIED WITH HOW THE FRENCH GOVERNED THE COLONY CRUELTY AND BRUTALITY INFLICTED ON THE SLAVES BY THEIR MASTERS TOUSSAINT’S CHARISMATIC INFLUENCE ON THE PEOPLE OF HAITI SOME WEALTHY FREE PEOPLE OF COLOUR WERE GRANTED CITEZENSHIP,THIS CAUSED DISCONTENT AMONG SLAVES.
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CAUSES POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FRANCE CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY,EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WERE TRANSMITED TO ST.DOMINGUE THE MAJORITY OF THE SLAVES ON THE COLONY WERE BORN IN AFRICA AN WERE ACCUSTOMED TO LIFE AS FREE INDIVIDUALS. ANTI SLAVERY MESSAGES WERE BEING CIRCULATED AROUND THE ISLAND THE OBVIOUS NEED FOR FREEDOM FROM THEIR OPRESSORS
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ORGANIZATION
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VOODOO PLAYED A PART IN THE ORGANIZATION AND IDEAS WERE FINALISED AMONGST LEADERS SUCKING OF BLOOD FROM A STUCK PIG,BOUKMAN INITIATED HIS FOLLOWERS BY A RELIGIOUS VOODOO PRAYER MEETINGS WERE HELD TO DISCUSS THE RIGHTS OF SLAVES REVOLUTIONARY LITERATURE WAS CIRCULATED AMONG THEM THE SEIEZURE OF ARMS FOR THEIR FIGHTING FOURCE
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ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION INTO CAMPS OF REVOLUTIONARIES WORKERS JOINED ARMS AS SOLDIERS REVOLUTIONARIES SET UP CAMP IN ALL THE DISTRICTS THEY HAD PILLAGED Toussaint, Francois, Biassou, Macaya, Dessalines, and Christophe all played a role in military leaders who aided with the organization
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ORGANIZATION TOUSSAINT’S DISTRUST FOR FRENCE POLITICS MAY HAVE BEEN USED AS A TOOL TO GAIN THE BLACKS SUPPORT RELIGION PLAYED A MOJOR PART IN THE ORGANIZATION MASS GATHERINGS IN THE WOODS LANGUAGE WAS USED AS A BARRIER, IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE REBELLION
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SUCCESS
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REASONS FOR SUCCESS SLAVES HAD RESSILIANT ATTITUDES AND DID NOT GIVE UP AFTER A PERIODE OF TIME,THE REVOLUTION IS SAID TO HAVE LASTED FOR 12 YEARS,WITH A SERIES OF UNGOING REVOLTS EVEN AFTER THE DEATH OF GREAT LEADERS,SLAVES HAD INDIPENDENT MINDS TO PROCEED WITH THE REVOLUTION SLAVES HAD BATTLE TACTICS WHICH THEY USED TO THEIR ADVANTAGE OVER THE WHITES
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REASONS FOR SUCCESS MANY WHITES BEGAN TO SUPPORT AN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT WHEN TARIFFS WERE BEING PLACED ON IMPORTED ITEMS. BY 1792 THE SLAVES CONTROLED ONE THIRD OF THE ISLAND,THEREFORE HAVING THE UPPER HAND. FORMER SLAVES MANAGED TO CRUSH THE ADVANCES OF THE FRENCE AND BRITISH FORCES WHO WERE AGAINST THEM.
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END RESULTS
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l’Overture EXPANDED THE REVOLT AN CONQUERED SANTO DOMINGO HE ABOLISHED SLAVERY IN SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND APPOINTED HIMSELF GOVERNOR-GENERAL l’Overture WAS CAPTURED AND DIED IN PRISON IN FRANCE
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END RESULTS Jean-Jacques Dessalines LEAD THE REVOLUTIONARIES AT THE BATTLE OF VERTIERES ON NOVEMBER 18,1803 FRENCE FORCES WERE DEFEATED IN THIS BATTLE ON JANUARY 1,1804 Dessalines DECLEARED THE NATION INDEPENDENT AND RENAMED IT HAITI!!!
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