Haitian Revolution
The successful anti-colonial insurrection and slave rebellion that took place in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (1791–1804), resulting in the establishment of Haiti as the first independent Black republic and the only nation founded by a successful slave revolt. Its impact reverberated across the Atlantic world, inspiring enslaved people elsewhere and reshaping geopolitics and intellectual thought.
Claims that use this term
- Hegel’s master-slave dialectic drew on news of the Haitian Revolution
- Maroons were integral participants in the genesis of the Haitian Revolution
- Haitian Revolution crippled Brazil’s rivals and raised sugar prices
- News of the Haitian Revolution inspired slaves across the Americas to revolt
- White intellectuals and academies suppressed the historical truth of the Haitian Revolution.
- Slave societies across the Americas watched the 13-year Haitian Revolution with opposite emotions.