haitian rev v french rev
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- There is a social system with three groups. This is the third estate: the commoners. They are being taxed and treated unfairly by a very large amount.
- We work everyday just to get taxed of all our money while the Clergy and Nobility live like gods in their fancy houses not working.
- "We are coming for you Marie!"
- Oh no!
- The peasants are storming the palace of Versailles and capturing the monarch.
- The monarchy was overthrown leading to Napoleons rule.
- "I may be small but my empire will be huge!" - Napoleon Bonaparte
- We are at work all day and night in the worst conditions and if we show the slightest obedience we are murder and beaten brutally.
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- August 22, 1791
- Toussaint Louverture is about to lead a revolt against the slave owners with the slaves while everyone sleeps.
- Tonight we make history, We shall show our enslavers their own deserved punishment!
- "We are free of the French and of Slavery! All because of Toussaint!
- It is about 1804 and the Haitian revolution has succeeded. Toussaint led the slaves to victory and caused slavery to be abolished in France and declared the slaves independence from the French.
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