HAiti freedom storyboard
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- Haiti, thrived as a wealthy French settlement and relied heavily on enslaved labor.
- When will our suffering end?
- Race and social class created alot division in Haitian society leading to intense conflict among the black and white people..
- Give us rights!
- Free us!
- Keep the plantations!
- Equality for all whites!
- in 1791, Toussaint L'Ouverture, previously enslaved, started a massive uprising of enslaved individuals to fight for slave and Haitian freedom. His army wanted their own goverment.
- In 1801, L'Ouverture, after taking control of Haiti, created the Haitian Constitution, declaring every all people as equal individuals. later, L'Ouverture was detained in France and lost his life in 1803.
- As governor, I declare all residents of St. Domingue to be equal!
- They arranged the Haitian Declaration of Independence in 1804. The document put an end to slavery in Haiti It also stopped whites from possessing the land.
- Haiti is free!
- Haiti became the first Latin American nation-state Haiti successfully liberated itself from European control and achieved self-rule. Only in Haiti did a successful slave rebellion lead to permanent liberation, setting it apart from all other countries.
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