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The Third Estate assembles in the tennis court at Versailles to write a new constitution. The new constitution causes the Mulattoes and free blacks to pursue representation and equal rights.
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The Colonial Assembly groups at Saint Marc. It is formed to combat the French National Assembly's stance on free blacks and mulattoes. The French National Assembly dissolves the Colonial Assembly at Saint Marc, but they refuse to disband.
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Vincent Oge gathers mulattoes together in the first attempts to challenge the French and the slave system in Haiti. (http://www.scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/san_domingo_revolution/revolution)
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Boukman gathers slaves to preform a ceremony, which serves as a religious ritual and a strategic meeting for conspirators who planning a revolt against the ruling white planters of the colony's wealthy Northern Plain.(http://scholar.library.miami.edu/slaves/san_domingo_revolution/individual_essay/jason.html)
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During the night slaves began burning plantations, and killing the white residence. By by morning there are few to no slaves that have not joined the movement. There numbers swell to around one to two thousand.
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The May 15th decree is recognized as granting citizenship to free blacks and mulattoes, thusly infuriating the whites causing tensions to rise.
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Causing an all out mulattoes rebellion in the south witch soon joins with the black slave movement. In the west Port-au-Prince is captured by rebels who shut off all access to food and water before being overthrown by french retaliation.
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Le Cap one of the first few cities to be burned during the start of the slave revolts.
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Boukman, the original leader of the revolt dies and leaders of the revolt proceed in a failed attempt to negotiate "improved quality of life on plantations." (http://library.brown.edu/haitihistory/6.html)
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Governor Blanchelande Marches against the rebel army at Platons, the rebels retreat leaving behind women and children to be captured expecting mercy. In stead the french troops massacred most, and send the rest back to their masters to be killed.
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with this decree free blacks and mulattoes are awarded equal rights.
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Spain Declares War Against England and France, causing frenzy in the colony of Saint-Domingue.
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Blacks and mulattoes side with the British once Spain declares war against England and France.
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Louis XVI is beheaded in France and leads to the French Republic
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Sonthonax, along with Aihaulm and Polverel are commissioners of St. Domingue and were granted the right to enforce their dominance to put current issues to rest. With this he is able to grant the general emancipation of slaves.
https://atlanticslaverydebate.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/shared/ASD/Module3/HstryDomngoBarskett1824.pdf -pg 106 -
slavery abolished in areas under French control.
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With this Britain has control of the bottom half of the islands sea ports. With Spain occupying the west.
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French government makes Toussaint L'Ouverture general-in-chief "which in reality was an honorary sanction of the power the had long exercised".
https://atlanticslaverydebate.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/shared/ASD/Module3/HstryDomngoBarskett1824.pdf -pg 122 -
Louverture forces him out, and soon the rest of the commissioners defer to him. This is seen by the french as threatening.
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Louverture signs a secret alliance treaty with England and the United States. (http://library.brown.edu/haitihistory/8.html)
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Toussaint wins with the help of the Maitland agreement which has the backing of the United States and Great Britain. Thomas, Logan. 2009. THE SUCCESS OF TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE: DEPENDENCE BY DESIGN. Journal of Haitian Studies 15, (1) (Spring): 125-134, https://login.ezproxy.uta.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.uta.edu/docview/213893792?accountid=7117 (accessed October 23, 2016).
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Once Napoleon takes over France he does not agree with Toussaint and the fact that he has ended slavery as funds were down due to the decrease in production on plantations.
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Louverture Proclaimed Supreme Commander-in-Chief. He is seen as the most powerful man on the island, his army numbering in the tens of thousands helps to enforce his laws in what is basically becoming a military dictatorship.
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this is an attempt to make reassure the french that america is still on there side.
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Leclerc is sent by his brother-in-law, Napoleon to St. Dominque to reinstate slavery.
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General Christophe sets fire to Le Cap, burning it to the ground in anticipation of the European troops’ arrival. http://library.brown.edu/haitihistory/5.html
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The Battle of Crete-a-Pierrot was a major turning point in the revolution. Out numbered, close to seven to one, Dessalines and his troops fight off two French attacks. Dessalines's forces were victorious as they regained control of the Crête-à-Pierrot fort.
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Bonaparte re-established Slavery in Martinique, Tobago, & Sainte-Lucie
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After Toussaint's capture, LeClerc takes over as General-in-chief to impose a new form of government but falls ill and dies. Rochambeau takes over.
https://atlanticslaverydebate.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/shared/ASD/Module3/HstryDomngoBarskett1824.pdf pg 178 -
Napoleon knows that he cannot defend the mouth of the Mississippi river and France against Britain so he sells Louisiana to the United States.
PURCHASE OF LOUISIANA. 1895. New York Times (1857-1922), Feb 13, 1895. https://login.ezproxy.uta.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.uta.edu/docview/95293579?accountid=7117 (accessed October 23, 2016). -
The first Haitian flag is created at the Archahaye conference. Girard, Philippe R. 2009. BIRTH OF A NATION: THE CREATION OF THE HAITIAN FLAG AND HAITI'S FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY HERITAGE. Journal of Haitian Studies 15, (1) (Spring): 135-150, https://login.ezproxy.uta.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.uta.edu/docview/213904409?accountid=7117 (accessed October 23, 2016).
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The amount of blacks against the French had been growing quickly and they make Dessalines the general-in-chief who leads them to the Cape and forces Rochambeau to surrender.
https://atlanticslaverydebate.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/shared/ASD/Module3/HstryDomngoBarskett1824.pdf pg 179 -
Takes place at Gonaives headquarters. Dessalines remains dictator.
https://www.marxists.org/history/haiti/1804/flag.htm
