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The Haitian Revolution was a revolution ignited from below, by the underrepresented majority of the population. [161] A huge majority of the supporters of the Haitian revolution were slaves and freed Africans who were severely discriminated against by colonial society and the law. [162]
The French Revolution began in 1789. On June 21st, 1791, King Louis XVI and his family attempted to flee Paris, but the plan failed due to a series of misadventures, delays, misinterpretations, and poor judgments. [10] Louis was officially arrested on August 13th, 1792, and sent to the Temple, an ancient fortress in Paris used as a prison.
In the two decades that followed the Haitian Revolution and the expulsion of the French colonial government in 1804, Haiti's independence had not been recognized by the world powers. In 1825, King Charles X of France decreed that his nation was to be compensated 150 million gold francs payable in five years in exchange for recognition of ...
[4] [5] The Haitian Revolution defeated the French army in November 1803 and the Haitian Declaration of Independence happened on 1 January 1804. [6] From February 1804 [7] until 22 April 1804, between 3,000 and 7,000 people were killed. [7]
Haiti, [b] officially the Republic of Haiti, [c] [d] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
Haiti is not a territory of the United States; it is an independent nation, gaining freedom from France in 1804, at the end of the Haitian Revolution. Though, it was nearly 60 years before the ...
The country inhabitated mostly by former slaves remained excluded from the hemisphere's first regional meeting of independent states, held in Panama in 1826, largely due to the atrocities of the 1804 Haitian Genocide which targeted European men, women and children who resided in Haiti, including those who were favorable to the revolution. [46]
Map of Antilles / Caribbean in 1843. Haiti, the former French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola, was the first Caribbean nation to gain independence from European powers in 1804. This followed 13 years of war that started as a slave uprising in 1791 and quickly turned into the Haitian Revolution under the leadership of Toussaint Louverture.