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The American Revolution came first. It began, of course, in 1776. While it was aimed at winning freedom from England's rule, the freedom it won was not for everyone. Slavery continued and even expanded following the revolution.
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A third revolution, in France, is also deeply connected with the other two. That revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1799.
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in the late 1700s, there were two successful revolutions in the Americas. The first was in the United States, which won independence from Britain in 1783.
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The Haitian Revolution led first to the ending of slavery in the colony in 1793, and then to the end of slavery throughout the French empire in 1794.
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by 1793 all the slaves in Saint-Domingue had been freed. By 1804, the colony had become a new nation, led by a formerly enslaved man named Jean-Jacques Dessalines.