Haiti was the hemisphere’s second independent republic

Evidence

The French Revolution was in turn paralleled in the New World by the outbreak of Toussaint L’Ouverture’s insurrection in 1791, which by 1806 had resulted in Haiti’s former slaves creating the second independent republic of the Western hemisphere. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 761

Categorization

• XREF: Haiti as the slave-led nation is a foundational counter-example that later readings on race, nationalism, and the limits of the national imaginary will invoke.

Related

• The Haitian Revolution was the hemisphere’s largest slave rebellion and devastated Napoleon’s finances. (similarity 0.80)
• The Haitian Revolution was itself largely an African revolution (similarity 0.79)
• Haiti’s successful slave revolt deviated its history from plantation-society logic (similarity 0.79)
• Contemporary slaves understood Haiti’s revolution better than later historians would. (similarity 0.79)
• The French Revolution would not have ended slavery without the Haitian revolt (similarity 0.78)
• Haiti’s revolution was suppressed from Western history while Haitians preserved it (similarity 0.78)
• Haiti became a sovereign state in 1803 after the Saint-Domingue revolution succeeded (similarity 0.78)
• Slave rebels sought freedom through alliance with France, not secession (similarity 0.78)
• A successful Haitian revolution would inspire enslaved peoples across the hemisphere (similarity 0.78)
• The Haitian Revolution uniquely made slaves, not owners, its protagonists (similarity 0.78)