Leslie M. Alexander, "Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
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The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution began in August 1791. By the end of September, over a thousand plantations had already been burned to the ground and hundreds of French colonists lay dead. The revolution goes on between as you said 1791 and really the end of 1803 it's at the end of1803 November of 1803 that the rebels declare victory over the French government. On January 1 of 1804 they declare their independence and announce the formation of Haiti. Of course what becomes the first sovereign black nation in the Western Hemisphere really sends kind of shockwaves across the Atlantic world.
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