Freedom, Enslavement and Resistance

Establish a French colony in the Caribbean.

Overthrow the Spanish monarchy in the Americas.

Create the first free Black republic.

Expand the transatlantic slave trade.

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Napoleon Bonaparte

King Louis XVI

He was the primary military strategist throughout the entire revolution.

He negotiated with the French to maintain colonial rule.

He declared Haiti's independence and became its first ruler.

He led the economic reforms that stabilized Haiti after the revolution.

Providing financial backing from European allies.

Serving as intermediaries between the enslaved and the French colonizers.

Organizing resistance and disseminating information.

Adopting French cultural practices to appease colonial authorities.

United States

Haiti

Liberia

Brazil

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Second

Third

Fourth

Widespread international recognition and support.

Immediate economic prosperity due to sugar production.

Internal political stability and unity.

Resistance from colonial powers and economic isolation.

It demonstrated the economic potential of North America.

It created an alliance between France and the United States.

France's defeat in Haiti made maintaining the territory untenable.

It led to a decrease in demand for land in the Americas.

It led to the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States.

It provided land for slavery's expansion, strengthening the slave-based plantation economy.

It decreased the demand for enslaved labor in the United States.

It had no impact on the expansion of slavery.

It led to a decrease in demand for sugar worldwide.

It caused the destruction of Haiti's plantations, creating a gap in sugar production.

It had no impact on global sugar production.

It led to an increase in sugar production in Haiti.