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During the 1700's the Caribbean was the economic center of the Americas
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Free slaves from Saint-Domingue joined the French military to back American rebels
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won independence from Britain
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Ninety percent of the Haitian population was enslaved
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this revolution was deeply influenced by the other two revolutions due to the effects it had on the French
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Tens of thousands enslaved people that were held in the north of Haiti rose up and began to defy the plantation system
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the mass upbringing of slaves happened in 1791-
they ended slavery in their colony in 1793-
they ended slavery in the French empire in 1794-
Haitians gained independence from France in 1804- -
Napoleon reverses the Law of February 4th, 1794, the law in which slavery was abolished in all French colonies
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Louverture, the leader of the Haitian Revolution gets arrested. He later died in prison due to pneumonia and malnutrition
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France officially recognizes Haiti as its own country
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The United States was the last of the nations to recognize Haiti as an official country