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1791 Haitian Revolution_Our Roots are Deep and Numerous


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The Haitian Revolution has often been described as the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere.  Slaves initiated the rebellion in 1791 and by 1803 they had succeeded in ending not just slavery but French control over the colony. 

Sources: 

Thomas O. Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1789-1804 (Knoxville, Tennessee:University of Tennessee, 1973); http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2990.html. 

Dubois, Laurent Avengers of the New World: The Story of Haitian Revolution . Cambridge Belknap Press, 2005

Dubois Laurent HaitiL The Aftershocks of History. New York : Picador, 2012.

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Impact The OutcomeBy David Frederick