World History Magno Haitian Revolution

Haitian revolution was the only…

Successful revolt led by enslaved people (chattel slavery)

Chattel slavery

Type of slavery where slaves were legally considered property, can be bought and sold, permanent, and hereditary

Type of slavery where slaves were legally considered property, can be bought and sold, permanent, and hereditary

Chattel slavery

Racial breakdown at Saint-Domingue

88% Slaves, 5% Colored, 2.5% mixed race, 7% white

Dominican republic used to be called ____, owned by ____
Haiti used to be called ____, owned by ____

Santo Domingo, Spain
Saint Domingue, France

Maroon Communities

Communities of Africans that escaped from plantations and live in rugged and remote communities. Most reliable and consistent form of resistance.

What did Saint-Domingue produce (list 3)?

Sugar, coffee, Indigo

Vodou

French Catholicism mixed with West African religions practiced by slaves on Haiti. Banned on Haiti

Alligator Woods/Bois Caiman (Definition & People)

When slaves gathered in the woods and made a blood pact that they will rebel and destroy the slave owners’ property in a week. Dutty Boukman gave a speech there.

Dutty Boukman

Voodoo priest that gave the speech at Alligator woods. Leader at alligator woods, catalysis of the rebellion. Died in battle early in the revolution.

Voodoo priest that gave the speech at Alligator woods. Leader at alligator woods, catalysis of the rebellion. Died in battle early in the revolution.

Dutty Boukman

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Former slave that got freed through his intelligence and trained in the French army. Wasn’t at Alligator woods. Helped organize and lead the rebellion. Ruled Haiti when slavery was temporarily paused. Got tricked and captured by the French after Napoleon ordered the invasion of Haiti. Died in prison

Former slave that got freed through his intelligence and trained in the French army. Wasn’t at Alligator woods. Helped organize and lead the rebellion. Ruled Haiti when slavery was temporarily paused. Got tricked and captured by the French after Napoleon ordered the invasion of Haiti. Died in prison

Toussaint L’Ouverture

Jacques Dessalines

First emperor of Haiti. Gifted field commander. Lead revolt after L’Ouverture’s capture against Napoleon’s troops sent to Haiti. L’Ouverture's right hand man. As emperor, killed white and mixed raced people, banned slavery, assassinated by his own generals.

First emperor of Haiti. Gifted field commander. Lead revolt after L’Ouverture’s capture against Napoleon’s troops sent to Haiti. L’Ouverture's right hand man. As emperor, killed white and mixed raced people, banned slavery, assassinated by his own generals.

Jacques Dessalines

How was the Haitian flag created

They ripped out the white part of the French flag.

Communities of Africans that escaped from plantations and live in rugged and remote communities. Most reliable and consistent form of resistance.

Maroon Communities

Code Noir (Definition + What did it say?)

A series of laws on the treatment and rights of enslaved individuals. Allowed masters to whip slaves and punish them however they wanted.

A series of laws on the treatment and rights of enslaved individuals. Allowed masters to whip slaves and punish them however they wanted.

Code Noir

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (Definition + What did it say?)

Document from the French Revolution that outlines individual rights of all citizens, saying that everyone is equal, free, and could own land.

Document from the French Revolution that outlines individual rights of all citizens, saying that everyone is equal, free, and could own land.

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Portuguese term that means, "raised in the home". Language of many in Haiti. developed primarily on the sugarcane plantations of Haiti from contacts between French colonists and African slaves.

Haitian Creole

Affranchi

A free person of color or mixed race and a derogatory term.

A free person of color or mixed race and a derogatory term.

Affranchi