The Mexican Revolution and the world w/Christina Heatherton | The Marc Steiner Show
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The Haitian Revolution and Its Relation to the Mexican Revolution
The Haitian Revolution really inspired revolutionary struggles from around the world. The new Black Republic of Haiti gave support, military support to people that were struggling for independence in the Americas against colonialism. But they did it on the condition that a newly independent Mexico or Venezuela could not in those countries, they could not have slavery. There's a self-conscious 20th century story about how the fate of Haiti and the fate of Mexico are understood together.
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