The Haitian Revolution was itself largely an African revolution

Evidence

The population of Saint-Domingue in the eighteenth century was not just majority slave; it was also majority African. These slaves had come from many different regions and political, social, and religious contexts, and they shaped the revolution with what they brought with them. James recognized decades ago that the Haitian Revolution was a precursor to the struggles for African decolonization. Now we are increasingly coming to understand that it was itself in many ways an African revolution. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 30

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the familiar picture of the revolution as a product of French Revolutionary ideals; instead roots it in African cultural and political inheritances.