Origin, Major Events, and Outcomes of the Haitian Revolution

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In the chapter entitled “The Haitian Revolution,” David Greggus analyzes this fascinating and important event in Caribbean history. Write an essay in which you analyze the origins, major events, and outcomes of the Haitian Revolution.
Origin, major events, and outcomes of the Haitian Revolution
Haitian Revolution is the conflict that occurred between 1791 and 1804 between the British armed forces, French colonizers, enslaved Haitians, colonists, and other parties. It is important to note that because of this struggle, the people of Haiti won their independence from France. Haiti was the first nation to be founded by formerly enslaved people. According to Knight & Palmer (Eds.) (1989), in the 1700s, Haiti was a French colony and a source of wealth for the French people due to its productive sugar, coffee, and cotton plantations. For these farms to be productive, France needed labor, and this is where millions of Haitians became slaves. The existence of slavery in the country resulted in the development of social classes whereby the owners of the plantation were at the top of the hierarchy.
Various factors caused Haitian Revolution. They include; the plantation system, the brutal slavery system, the social and racial classes of Saint Dominque, the effects of the American and French Revolutions, and the colonization of the West Indies by France. However, from these factors, frustrations brought by the racist society developed turmoil in the colony. Further, most enslavers were extremely brutal towards their slaves. For example, Vincent Oge, who petitioned at the Parisian assembly for colonial reforms, led a demonstration in 1790 but was arrested and killed (Knight & Palmer (Eds.), 1989). This caused a rebellion among enslaved people in 1791, even after Europeans tried to appease them.
Led by Toussaint L’Overture, in 1791, enslaved people started to rebel against planters, and by 1792, they had controlled a third of the island. Despite the reinforcement from French colonists, rebellion from enslaved people increased, and this resulted in violence from both. During this particular period, 100,000 blacks and 24,000 whites were assassinated. Further, French and British forces who had arrived in 1793 to help conquer the nation withdrew from the region after several defeats by the L’Overture force. Knight & Palmer (Eds.) (1989) notes that by 1801, L’Overture had managed to expand the revolution further than Haiti and had conquered the neighboring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. Thus, Toussainta eradicated slavery in the region and became the Governor-General over the entire island of Hispaniola.
However, when Haitian Revolution ovulated the French Revolu...