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[BEST OF] The Haitian Revolution

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The Reintroduction of Slavery

In 1802 when Napoleon sends his brother-in-law general Emmanuel Leclerc he sails to Saint- beaming with 22,000 soldiers eventually it'll swallow up to 80,000 soldiers they get there in may of 1802. Everyone more or less has an idea that that they're there to take out Tucson and they may be there to reinstitute slavery so it's really interesting There are slave revolution ex-slave revolutionary leaders who never crossed over to the french at the same time as their former allies like john jock de saline henry christoph were working for the french. The women have been doing a lot of the front line fighting since the French revolution emerged in 1791

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