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Many of the U.S. leaders had owned slaves and they would provide guns to stop revolts.
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The planters want to move to independence and the slaves revolted because of how they are treated. They created some very strange alliances and movements.
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The slave revolt was led by former slave, Toussaint-Louverture. Toussaint-Louverture was described as having had natural military genes. He organized a brutal war against the island’s colonial population.
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Two generals who were former slaves, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe made peace with revolutionary France after the abolishment of slavery.
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Toussaint freed the slaves and became governor general of the colony
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Napoleon had ordered an invasion force and landed on Saint Domingue. After several months of fighting Toussaint agreed to stop fighting and called for a cease-fire.
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Toussaint retired to plantation where he was arrested and taken to a dungeon French Alps. In said dungeon, Toussaint was torchered and than died in April due to the torture he was recieving at the time.
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After Toussaint was arrested, Napoleon announced that he was to reintroduce slavery in Haiti. Dessalines allies with Britain to lead a new revolt against France, the rebels won against the French colonial authorities.
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General Dessalines takes dictatorial rule of Haiti and then Haiti becomes the second independent nation in the Americas but is not acknowledged by the U.S. Later into his rule Dessalines names himself Emperor Jacques
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The United States didn't officially recognized the Haitian independence until 1862. The Haitian Revolution created the second independent country of the Americas
