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It was a slave colony with 90% of the population enslaved
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The Caribbean is the economic center and Saint Domingue is the heart of the economic center.
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Free people of color began to fight for political rights, first peace then violently
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Tens of thousands of enslaved people in the north of Haiti rise up against the plantation system. -
Slaves initiated the rebellion then ended up succeeding in ending not just slavery but French control of the colony
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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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Napoleon starts to reverse France's ban on slavery leading to war between French and Haitian forces. -
The colony had become a new nation, led by a former enslave man: Jean Jacques Dessalines -
Haiti won it's independence -
