The Haitian Revolution uniquely made slaves, not owners, its protagonists

Evidence

When the thirteen colonies revolted, the wealthiest colonies of the British empire—those of the Caribbean—did not join them, in part because concern about controlling their slaves overshadowed a desire for independence. While slaves played a major role in the American Revolution, primarily by escaping to join the British, who held out the promise of freedom, in the new United States slavery was ultimately consolidated rather than destroyed. In contrast, the victorious struggle for national independence that soon followed in Saint-Domingue became a successful struggle against slavery. And its major protagonists were not slave owners but slaves themselves. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 130

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the American Revolution narrative from standard US history textbooks; the two Atlantic revolutions are set against each other, a framing worth revisiting.