The History that Created Haiti

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https://www.ncronline.org/news/history-created-haiti

".....On Aug. 22, 1791, 6,000 “Maroons” (escaped slaves who lived in the forests and raided plantations) rebelled in the port city of Le Cap. Haiti -- with its 32,000 whites, 27,000 mulattos, and at least a half-million registered slaves, but likely many more -- had been an uprising-prone tinderbox for four decades.

The revolution grew and, in a matter of days, 100,000 risen slaves destroyed 300 plantations. The white royalists responded. As the guillotines never stopped in Paris, in Le Cap six gallows operated night and day. But the whites were losing ground. Those whites able to flee did so, many to the United States, where they received permanent U.S. government allowances. In the next 12 years, the former slaves defeated local whites and their military units, a Spanish invasion, a British expedition of 60,000, and an equally numerous expedition under Napoleon’s brother-in-law. During that same period, one-third of Haiti’s population was slaughtered......"