The Haitian Revolution
In Our Time: History
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The Relationship Between Santa Man and France
Santa Man had only been a colony of France for less than a century at the time of the French Revolution. The relationship was based economically speaking on a system called the Exclusif which was a trade monopoly. It put the Grand Blonde, the great whites, in a position of great power inside the island. Of course this relationship is also making the French bourgeois class in Bordeaux extremely rich.
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