The Haitian Revolution
In Our Time: History
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Can We Go on to the French Revolution?
In the white population they see this, the ideas of the French Revolution is really a chance to try and emulate what happened in North America a decade earlier. So the grumb on the whites taught great, we can free ourselves like the Americans in making more money. Some of the smaller white people and some of the less rich white people in the colony also saw it as a chance. The mixed race population who were, had their civil rights eroded during this period,. saw it as an opportunity to become enfranchised. And you... The 90% of the rest of the population saw it too.
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