The Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution breaks out in 1791 and it lasts until 1804 when on January 1st 1804 Jean-Jacques de Salind declares the independence of a colony that used to be called Saint-Domingue but it's transformed into what we now refer to as Haiti. This takes place within the broader period of history referred to generally as the age of revolution which is anywhere from the 1760s up till maybe even the revolutions of 1848. And for a long time most historians tended to ignore the Haitian Revolution's paramount place within this broader age of revolution. The one successful slave revolution in the history of Americas.