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Latin American Revolutions

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Population of Saint Domingue

Saint Domingue's economy was dependent on sugar plantations.

  • Plantation owners forced enslaved Africans to work under difficult conditions.

  • The enslaved population greatly outnumbered free peoples.

Identifying Bias in a Primary source

Who is The Author?

  • This source was written by a well educated French colonists who defended slvery

When was the source written?

  • 1797

Does it present a balanced view of an issue?

Haitian Independence

Haitian Independence

In 1791, 100,000 enslaved people revolted against the plantation owners in Hatii.

  • The rebels eentually gained control of the island, and free all those enslaved.

  • They were led by a man named Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743-1803)

  • Led Haiti's independenc movement .
  • Was a skilled general and diplomat

  • Issued a constitution that abolished slavery in Saint-Domingue

  • Died in French prison, before independence was won in 1804

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