The Haitian Revolution
In Our Time: History
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What Do You Think Will Happen in Haiti?
The declaration itself will have humongous immediate effect everywhere. It will affect various different strategies differently for the abolitionists. Some of the more radical abolitionists will be fine with this because they really want to change the system immediately. But we don't want those outside the island. And these would be people like those who would have been part of the societies for the Friends of the Black in France. This is the moment where this not only the actual declaration itself, but just the existence of Haiti will actually say to people that you cannot have slave systems. You can't have a society that imagines that people of a certain group are disenfranchised to a certain extent and actually oppressed as a natural
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