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During the french revolution free men of African decent called gens de couleur joined the french military and fought the siege of the savannah.
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The American revolution began to unfold and in the coming years a few more colonial revolutions began to unfold
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At this time in Haiti slavery was going strong and many found it hard to believe that i could be abolished
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In Haiti many slaves stand up and start a revolution through violence and burning down crop fields of sugar and smashing machinery .
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delegates headed to philadelphia with a mob and threatened to kill a former french soldier then headed to france to argue to abolish slavery in france
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this was the first official nation wide of abolition of slavery in history declared in February and was considered a huge victory as haiti was independent from France as well.
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Napoleon Bonaparte began to reverse the policies of emancipation decreed in 1794 and to strike out against Toussaint Louverture and the new leadership class that had emerged in Saint-Domingue.the United States only briefly outlawed trade with the new nation. Indeed, in 1802 and 1803 arms shipments from the U.S. were crucial in the victory of the Haitian revolutionaries against France. In this sense, the two revolutions found a certain common cause