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Between 500,000 and 1 million Taino people live on the island of Atyi
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Columbus lands on island inhabited by the Tainos and names the island "Hispaniola"
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Due to enslavement, Taino population is reduced to 60,000 people by 1517. The population continued to drop the century.
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Sugar cane was introcuded to the island resulting in Saint Domingue becoming one of the richest colonies of all time.
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French gained control of 1 third of Hispaniola and named it Saint Domingue.
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The affranchis demand equal rights and with free whites influenced by the Decleration of the Rights of Man. They send representatives to fight for their cause, but they are denied.
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The french government grant full rights to free blacks in Saint Domingue. White colonists refuse to acknowledge the decree and the blacks revolt. Slaves begin to revolt in attempt to improve thier situation. The government revokes descision to grant rihgts to free blacks, thus they join up with the slaves in their revolt.
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Louis XVI grants free blacks equal rights. Spain and Britain launch military campagins to take over the colony.
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L'Ouverture temporarily joins Spain to defeat French attempts to re-capture the colony and re- establish slavery.
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L'Ouverture joins french forces under the banner of emancipation and equal rights for blacks.
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Spain made an agreement that gave its colony to France and withdrew its troops from the Island
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L'Ouverture and Rigaud pushed out most of the British.
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Napoleon is under increasing pressure from French Merchants to re-capture Saint Domingue and re establish slavery. Also, the War of Knives begin
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L'Ouverture is leader of colony once the War of Knives has ended
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L'Ouverture establishes a constitution. This consistution abolishes slavery, and declared that all citizens had equal rights, and outlawed the practice of Voodoo. However, Napolean refuses to recongize it, for he sees it as a threat.
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French forces invade Saint Domingue and intend to re-establish their rule. L'Ouverture is captured and sent to prison. Napolean reinstates slavery in the Colony
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French forces admit defeat and leave Island
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Jean Jacques Dessalines proclaims Haiti's independence and crowns himself emperor