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Vincent Ogé (gens de couleur), goes to France, gets rights for free blacks Ogé is killed by whites when he returns(chained to wagon wheel and repeatedly run over
Bands of runaway slaves, known as maroons (marrons), entrenched themselves in the colony's mountains and forests
From their they attacked white-owned plantations both to secure provisions and weaponry and to avenge themselves against the inhabitants. -
Guerilla Attacks
Bands of runaway slaves, known as maroons (marrons), entrenched themselves in the colony's mountains and forests
From their they attacked white-owned plantations both to secure provisions and weaponry and to avenge themselves against the inhabitants. -
crisis
Dutty Boukman (“Dirty Book Man” because he was accused of teaching slaves to read) leads thousands of Maroons (runaway slaves) to attack plantations across the colony killing 15,000. Boukman is killed and the revolt falters until Toussaint organizes them. -
Slave Revolt
The bands of slaves slaughtered every white person they encountered.
They torched property, fields, factories, and anything else that belonged to, or served, slaveholders.
The rebellion left an estimated 10,000 blacks and 2,000 whites dead and more than 1,000 plantations sacked and razed. -
War of the Castes
America helps Toussaint in order to get France out of the area.
Toussaint gets nickname “Louverture” (break through enemy lines) from the French -
Toussaint becomes dictator and needs money
Re-imposes plantation system, sugar means money for Haiti.
Uses freed slaves as forced labor (sounds like slavery to me)
It doesn’t work -
Toussaint kidnapped and is taken to France - dies of neglect and starvation in jail
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Revolution is carried on by Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Both sides resort to atrocities
Haitians hang French prisoners
U.S. and Britain fear slave revolt
Newspapers cover the murder of the French but not the blacks
British delay abolishing the slave trade -
Return to Normalcy
Dessalines officially declares independence, renaming "Haiti" after the indigenous Arawak name for mountain
Land redistribution ends the plantation system, subsistence farming begins.