HAITIAN REVOLUTION

BEFORE

• Haiti was originally a French Colony
• Most valued colony, making most of Britain's sugar and coffee
• The sugar was made on massive slave plantations.
• Slaves constantly imported from Africa.

CASTE SYSTEMS: THE SLAVES

• Made 90% of the island's population
• Were constantly brutalized and forced to work in the sugar factories.
• Constant slave death prevented natural growth
• Common Slave life expectancy was 21 years
• Africans constantly imported for work

CASTE SYSTEMS: "FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR"

• Rich, free descendants of Slaves and Rich Plantation owners
• Some owned their own plantations and slaves
• Were nontheless still oppressed by the rich white people
• Often fought for their rights

CASTE SYSTEMS: PETIT BLANCS

• The poor white people on the island
• Consisted of artists, slave dealers, cooks, and servants
• Were rebellious and fought over their lack of money

CASTE SYSTEM: GRANDE BLANCS

• The rich white people, the smallest ammount of people living there
• Most evacuated to france after Yellow Fever broke put among the colonies
• Often let their agents work instead of themselves

SYSTEM FAILING

• Slaves begin to fight
• Racial tension began to build between slaves and white people
• Violent revolts begin to become common

FRENCH REVOLUTION

• France's economy collapses
• France publishes the rights of man, starting civil rights in france, but not ending Slavery
• French revolution occurs

THE COLLAPSE

• Most lower systems were enraged
• Slaves wanted to be free
• Free people wanted to stop opression
• Petit Blancs wanted to own their own slaves
• Petit Blancs attempt to secede, taking over the island to create a slave country

REVOLT

• Slaves fight take over the entire island via guerilla warfare
• Would murder any slaveholder they found
• Being 90% of the population, the slaves easily took over the island

FIRST REVOLUTION

• Revolt was led by Toussaint de Le'Ouverture, a former slave who used complex battle strategies to win
• Took over the island, effectivley making it a new country, Haiti
• Le'Ouverture was an African born former slave who worked his entire life to abolish slavery and set Haiti free
• France, being too caught up in wars with Spain and Britian, were forced to free the slaves
• Because of Leouverture's genius war tactics, he liberated the island and help found Haiti

FRENCH OCCUPATION

• Napoleon takes over France shortly after the Revolution
• Plans to found a new empire in Frech owned lans next to America
• Sends his brother with a fleet to take over Haiti, a perfect stronghold
• Brother occupies Haiti
• Jails Le'Ouverture, dies in prison

SECOND REVOLUTION

• French steal the Haitian's guns, angering them
• Attack French troupes using brutal Guerilla Warfare
• Haitians spread Yellow Fever, killing off half of the troupes and Napoleon's Brother
• French are forced to retreat, unable to take over the land
• France gives up the land to US President Thomas Jefferson, the Louisiana Purchase

THE EFFECT ON AMERICA

• The freed slaves unintentionally started the Lousiana compromise
• Louisiana Compromise started The Corps of Expedition, Westward expansion, etc
• A successfull slave uprising terrified the Southern farmers, fearing an uprising, increasing chances of civil war
• Prevented Napoleon from taking over half of North America
• Such expansion caused even more racial tension with Mexicans and Native Americans

THE END