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-Part of the Island of Hispaniola
-Highly associated with Atlantic slave trade (slaves were 90% of pop.)
-Colonial State
-Most valuable colony in West Indies (produced 40% of Europe sugar and 60% of it's coffee)
-Divided into four social groups

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-Independence
-Jean-Jacques Dessalines led the Haitians after the French Captured l’Overture
-Second republic in Western Hemisphere
-First black republic in the world
-First successful slave revolt

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-l’Overture and his defenses fought off the French attacks as well as the British and Spanish attacks that traveled over to the New World
-l'Overture also went over to Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), conquered the area, and freed the slaves there

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-a number of simultaneous revolutions inspired by the French
-A former slave named  Toussaint l'Overture led the first enslaved rebellion that ignited the rest

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-The French Revolution Influenced the Haitian Revolution with their New Enlightenment Ideas
-The the whites of Saint Domingue were fed up with France because of their trading laws and began to support the French revolution
-Even though they wanted independence from France, they continued to own slaves
-"Deceleration of the Rights of Man"

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-Enlightenment concepts generated Revolutions by changing the thoughts of the population
-People under rule started questioning authority and started to think about an alternative way of living
-The impact of these Enlightenment concepts became universal

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-Slave labor was used for harvesting sugar, coffee, indigo, and cotton and the mining industry (which brought population numbers down)
-Population of 500,000 slaves
-Diseases from the Europeans were contacted by the Haitians such as smallpox and yellow fever