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[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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The Slave Revolution in the North

On august 22nd 1791 this small slave revolutionary group start to attack plantations they start to kill plantation owners and their families. The first demands will be something like the elimination of the whip and three days rest to work on garden plots right so one historian talks about how these slave demands had a quote a strong peasant feel to them. In 1792 1793 is when once again the french revolution radicalizes the royals lose their heads, that initiates a broader European imperial warlike Austria great Britain and Spain will declare war on republican france which moved from a constitutional monarchy to a republic.

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