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Haitian Revolution
Term | Definition |
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Who lived here | Indigenous people |
what was the island called | Hispaniola |
what country is it today | Haiti and Dominican Republic |
Europeans interested in colonizing the island | sugar and coffee |
2 European countries that controlled the island | France and Spain |
What effects did it have on the indigenous populations | killed them out because of hard labor conditions |
slaves on the island | to work |
Slaves treated by the Europeans | slaves were getting sick from diseases |
slave population resist | suicide, poison, runaway slaves - maroons |
maroons | practiced voodoo, gathered weapons, planned resistance |
National Assembly | abolishes slavery in France, not on the island |
Toussaint Louverture | former slave, commander with the rebel army of black slaves |
independence in Saint-Domingue | Louverture died in France, 1st successful slave revolt |
Haitian people, punished for being free | not accepted as a black country, other countries did not want slavery to go away |