![]() Slaves were imported from many regions in West About half of the slaves had been born in Africa. They also made up most of the island’s militia, responsible for keepingīoth the whites and the free coloreds, however: there were 465,000 of them in Saint Domingue by 1789. The same class as black slaves, but in the French colonies, many whites hadĮmancipated their mixed-race children, creating a class of “free coloreds” thatĬoloreds were often well educated and prosperous members of this group ownedĪbout 1/3 of the slaves in the colony. States, non-whites were almost always put in In the largest colony, Saint Domingue, numbered only 30,000 in 1789. Slave colonies had a very different social structure from the slave states of Was the main source of the sugar and coffee that had become indispensable to Immediately proclaimed that “men are born and remain free and equal inĬolonies looked small on the map, the three Caribbean colonies of SaintĬontained almost as many slaves as the thirteen much larger American states Like the American revolutionaries, the French The American constitution was going into effect in 1789, a revolution broke out Led instead to the expansion of African-American slavery in the southern Racial discrimination cannot be justified. ![]() The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804): A Different Route to EmancipationĪmerican Revolution of 1776 proclaimed that all men have “inalienable rights,”īut the revolutionaries did not draw what seems to us the logical conclusion ![]()
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