The Haitian Revolution and the Haitian Slavery Insurrection

Haitian Revolution was intimately tied to events in France. When we go looking for the pre-revolutionary shock that would shatter the web of tension in Saint-Domingue, the answer is just the French Revolution. This created an outright civil war between big whites and free people of color in the colony. These irreconcilable conflicts triggered by the French Revolution in 1789. That's the big shock here,. made possible the real revolution that was set in motion in 1791, the slave insurrection.