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French planters frequently demanded freer trade, sometimes through violent revolt
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American Revolution began
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several hundred "gens de couleur" — free men of African descent — joined the French military, which was supporting the American rebels, and fought at the siege of Savannah
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United States won independence from Britain
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First stage of the Haitian Revolution – free people of color began to fight for political rights, first peacefully then violently
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French Revolution
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French colony's slave system would soon be completely overturned
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Haitian Revolution
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Tens of thousands of enslaved people in the north of Haiti rise up against the plantation system.
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Uprising became a political and military movement and local officials declared an end to slavery in the colonies.
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Haiti's decree was the first national abolition of slavery in history.
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Napoleon starts to reverse France’s ban on slavery leading to war between French and Haitian forces.
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Haiti wins independence and the colony became a new nation, led by an ex-slave general named Jean-Jacques Dessalines
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United States finally acknowledged Haitian independence