APWH Haitian Revolution Timeline

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    French Revolution

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    French Revolution

  • Petition for Rights and Citizenship

    Asked for civil protections; enraged whites; whites threatened and murders mixed-raced citizens

  • Petition for Rights and Citizenship

  • Winter begins; Thousands of freed men surrender

  • First Voodoo Ceremony of Free Africans (Ceremony of Wakayama)

    Beginning of rebellion/Revolution
    Pn that night they made a plan to revolt 2 weeks from there, beginning with destroying many plantations around the island
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    Haitian Revolution

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    Haitian Revolution

    Revolution begins by a island-wide violent revolt against whites (brutal)

  • French Representatives send a letter to Saint Domingue Endorsing the Emancipation of the Slaves

    Delegates freed slaves throughout the entire French Empire as well

  • Toussaint Louverture Makes himself Dictator

  • Napoleon Reinstates slavery; Jean-Jacques Dessalines arrested and taken to France

  • Toussaint Louverture Freezes to Death in a French Prison

  • France Indebts Haiti with an "Independence Debt"

    Racist, bigoted, French aristocrats indebt Haiti with an "Independence Debt", which is simply a ridiculous way for the French to get petty revenge against people who revolted because they were enslaved