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How The Haitian Revolution Began
On March 28, 1790 the General Assembly in Paris passed an amendment that stated “all the proprietors... ought to be active citizens”. Which excluded the petit balances because most of them did not own property. Thus causing anger against the free people of color but most of them owned property. -
French Started The Haitian Revolution
The French Revolution In France caused The Haitian Revolution of 1791. Many people were dissatisfied with the French, which caused many alliances with friends and enemies. This lead up to the Haitian Revolution. -
Slaves Assaulted on The Whites
Maroons and slaves assaulted on the whites on the evening of August 21 because Oge and Chavannes had tried to get the General Assembly to persuade that citizenship included the free people of color but Oge and Chavannes forces were badly beaten, many of their tiny band of 300 captured and and Oge and Chavannes were murderer. -
War Stuck Out
On August 22, 1791, the Haitian war struck out. Over one hundred thousand slaves rose up to fight against the outnumbered French. The slaves did not fight for just liberty, but instead vengeance. -
Decree Ordered Commissioners
On September 23 the decree ordered commissioners to go to Saint-Domingue with 18,000 troops and restore control. In December, 1791, they arrived in Saint-Domingue and their position was weaker because they had 6,000 troops. The commissioners could not bring peace to Saint-Domingue with 6,000 troops. France’s problem was to bring unity between the free people of color and the Caucasians against the slaves. Later in April, the free people of color were given citizenship. -
French Army Captured Louverture
On April 20, 1802, the French army had captured Louverture. However, the French a agreement and Louverture was imprisoned in France. Louverture died, however, on April 7, 1803. -
Taking The Slaves Weapons
In August of 1802 Louverture ordered Toussaint's general, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and other officers to take the rebel slave's weapons but their attempt failed. Black officers that were in the French military had resigned and turned against the French. Rochambeau who was the son of a famous veteran, had started a campaign that focused on anti-racism. -
France Surrendered
On November 29,1803, France surrendered on third of the island to the Haitians and in 1804 Dessalines who led the indigenous army, and his generals had proclaimed that Saint-Domingue was now an independent nation and was now called Haiti. When Haiti signed a treaty with France in 1825, the major plantations were no longer in use. The Haitian society was divided into which were the ex-slaves had now become peasants and administrative, commercial, and military elites who lived in coastal cities. -
French Residents Are Slaughtered
On October 8, 1804, the dessalines , emperor of Haiti, ordered for the reaming of the French residents in Haiti to be slaughtered. The blacks took their revenge on the whites, and as many as 4,000 of the whites were killed. They are urged on by Dessalines, who famously cried, "Koupe tèt, brule kay," meaning, "Cut their heads, burn their houses." -
The Colonial Powers Surrender
After the arrest of Toussaint-Louverture, Napoleon says he wants to reintroduce slavery to Saint-Domingue, Toussaint's right hand man Jean-Jacques Dessalines leads a new revolt against French rule and wins. On November 9th 1803 the colonial powers surrender. In 1804 General Dessalines gained dictatorial power when Haiti becomes the second independent nation in the Americas.
