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[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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The Anti-Colonial Criticism of the Baron the Bestie

Haiti is a historically consequential event for the french and the british empires even though they don't want to admit it right um this also katie plays a key role in dismantling the international slave trade. The news of the Haitian revolution spread throughout plantation economies and societies in the america's and it inspired slave revolutions everywhere. In part motivated or pushed by what the Haitian revolution did, European powers tried to isolate haydee so that their example from spreading but because of ports because of sailors because of ships because of smugglers now i think one messed up one of the hadi had to essentially pay for its revolution and its freedom.

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