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This priest started the revolutionary ideas with this call. Few days later, 100,000 slaves rose in revolt and joined his ideas.
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This is an ex-slave guy that leads the rebellion against the planters. He was an untrained but skillful in military and diplomacy.
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In this date, the National Assembly in France adopted a statement of revolutionary ideas that defended men's rights as equality. This was going to be a great influence for French colonies and the entire world. It was a signed document starting revolutionary ideas.
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This is the reason why L'Overture agrees to join the French side after a previous invasion of the British against Saint Domingue
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The rebllion kept getting power
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By this date, he lead his army in there, took control and freed the slaves.
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He was the brother-in-law of Napoleon, and he was commited this secret mision that had a big potential.
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France wanted to stop rebellion, and brought military people to take him off power.
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In this, he agreed to halt the revolution if the French would end slavery.
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This was in the French Alps. He was acused of another uprising and was kept in tough conditions.
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They revolted because of the re-establishment of the slavery.
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This was when he found out slavery ws going to continue
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He dies in prison.
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This had an important impact because Napoleon started to lose interest in his territories in the Americas and concentrated more in his closer enemies as Great Britain and Prussia. This weakened French power and dominance in America, therefore, in Haiti
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After Toussaint's death, he took absolute control in the army and remained the fighting for independence.
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Dessalines defeats French troops and achieves independence
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Haiti became the first black colony to declare independent, and named themselves Haiti because of the native dialect meaning "maountanious land"
