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start of revolution
Some 50,000 slaves swept across Plain du Nord and killed owners of plantations and their families, set fire to barns houses and crops. -
Biassou and Jean deal
Biassou and Jean struck a deal to turn over slaves in return for their own freedom. Toussaint would not have a part of it and organized slaves into a guerrilla army and attacked the French when they least expected it. -
New law
France passed a new law freeing all slaves. Then Toussaint switched sides and joined the French and he succeeded in driving Spanish troops from St. Domingue -
slaves come back
Toussaint became worried about the economic status in St. Domigue because after 4 years of revolution had destroyed most plantations and driven off owners. So he asked former slaves to come back and work on the sugar fields and he had to pay them because they were not slaves any more. -
Toussaint ruler
Toussaint became ruler of a whole island in Hispaniola in the name of France. -
Toussaint dead
Toussaint caught pneumonia and died. -
yellow fever
Yellow fever drove the French out of St. Domingue. -
Revolution ended
Dessalines declared St. Domingue independent and gave the country a new name Haiti