The History of Haiti

The population of haiti was essentially living to prop up the military, which he kept at 20 thou and strong. The only real revolutionary difference between 17 91 and 18 o four was that now blacks and coloreds form the planter aristocracy, rather than whites. Even with the final triumph of a black general who happened to be an ex field slave, all the strict labor codes were kept in place. So for the mass of rural cultivators out there, things were still just like they had always been. Export, base plantation economics was going to be the only way ward.