Haitian Revolution

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Haitian Revolution
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• Duvalier, 1957-1986 and his Tonton Macoutes
• Edwidge Danticat, Dew Breaker (2004)

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St .Domingue, 1789
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Slave Revolt
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• On April 4, 1792, the National Assembly of
  France declared that the hommes de couleur and
  nègres libres must enjoy, along with the white
  colons, equality of political rights. This
  means that henceforth, there will only be two
  kinds of people in the French colonies free and
  enslaved. Legal distinctions on the basis of
  race have been outlawed!

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1792 decree

• As one historian wrote
• the slave insurgents of Saint-Domingue had
  expanded the political horizon in a paradoxical
  way, making it necessary to grant racial equality
  in order to save slavery. Laurent Dubois,
  Avengers of the New World, p. 131

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Toussaint LOuverture (1743-1803)
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Statute of Dessalines, Cap-Haitien
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Common Routes

• St. Domingue-Louisiana

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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• Interview of Laurent Dubois with Madison Smartt
  Bell, Common Place, July 2007