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1793
L'ouverture expanded the revolution beyond Haiti, conquering the neighboring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. He abolished slavery in the spanish-speaking colony and declared himself Governor-general for life over the entire island of hispaniola.
-L'overture was taken and sent to France where he died in prison
-Nov 18, 1803, the french forces were defeated
August 21, 1791, the leader who was a former slave, Toussaint L'Ouverture had enslaved act first, and rebel against the planters.
Jan. 1st, Dassalines declared the nation independent and renamed Haiti. France became the first nation to recongnize it's independence. Haiti thus emerged as the first black republic in the world, and the second nation in the western hemisphere to win its independence from a European power.
Former slaves man aged to stave off both the french forces and the british who arrived at 1793 to conquer the colony and who withdrew in 1793 after a series of defeats by L'ouverture forces.
They controlled a third of the island despite reinforcements from France, the area of the colony held by the rebels grew as did the violence on both sides. Before the fighting ended 100,000 of the 500,000 blacks and 24,000 of 40,000 whites, were killed.
They had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. The haitian revolution however was more complex, consisting of several revolutions going on simultaneously.