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Haitian revolution
An important factor in the abolition of slavery was the impact of those enslaved people or freed former slaves that fought for freedom and their rights. From the very beginning there were slave revolts. The most successful slave revolt was that on Saint Domingue. A chain of rebellion began when Fren...
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Toussaint Louverture...
Trouble started in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in 1790 when the Declaration of the Rights of Man, made after the French Revolution was denied to the freed coloured population by the white plantation owners. In October 1790 Vincent Ogé, a wealthy freed man organised a campaign to claim voting rights...
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Portrait of Henry Ch...
This picture is of the first and only King of Haiti. The enslaved Africans in Haiti, led by Toussaint l'Ouverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henry Christophe eventually won their freedom. Toussaint died in a French prison, whilst Dessalines was murdered in 1804. Christophe as commander of the arm...
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