Haitian Revolution

The indigenous population of the island raises up in rebellion against Spanish conquistadors, ultimately not successful. And then you had the scourge of smallpox with the increasing numbers of Spaniards coming over. The Spanish are also busy forcibly transporting captive Africans to the island to force them to work as slaves. They're main crop with sugar, but they also grew coffee and indigo and exported those staples back to Europe in the triangular slave trade. So it really created a kind of hostile environment for the many different types of people who lived in the colony. It's been called by historians the conquest of the Americas, including Mexico and South America and North America.