The Haitian Revolution directly enabled the Louisiana Purchase and US slavery’s expansion

Evidence

The victory of the black troops of Saint-Domingue paved the way for the Louisiana Purchase. Bonaparte’s mission to the colony had been the centerpiece of a new colonial policy aimed at reinvigorating the French presence in the Americas—Louisiana was meant to supply food for the reconstructed plantation society of Saint-Domingue—and when it was crushed he had little choice but to give up his ambitions, to the profit of an expanding United States. As a result slavery thrived and expanded in North America during the next decades. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 1069

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• QUESTION: A central counterfactual worth chasing: how differently would the Americas look if the Saint-Domingue mission hadn’t failed?