Haitian Revolution Honors

Saint Domigue

old name for current day Haiti, west side of hispanola

Hispanola

island divided by the Domican Republic and Haiti

Haiti

modern day Saint Domigue, west side of island

Colony

an area or territory controlled politically by a more powerful, distant country

Social classes

whites 7% - free people of color 5% & mulattos 2.5% - enslaved Africans 88%

Maroon commununities

• Originally, referred to indigenous people who ran

• away from the Spaniards on plantations

•  Eventually used to describe enslaved Africans who

• escaped and lived in remote refugee communities

Vodou

• Combined elements of Roman Catholicism and tribal religions of

• western Africa, particularly Benin.

• monotheistic

impact of Vodou

small revolutions that have the enslaved Haititans hope

Bon Dieu

the high God they worshipped

Code Noir

set of laws that allow slavery and the brutality of it in he French Colony

Conditions of slavery

• most brutal and horrible types of slavery

• 50% death rate within a few years

• 1 million Africans die

• many commit suicide

• torture to people who resisted

impact on Haiti

independance

ratio of enslaved people to whites

10:1

Economy

Economy suffers after Haiti gains their independence - sugar and coffee sales decrease & france demands money to make up for money spent on war

Resistance

• maroon communites

• Vodou

• women posioning masters

Dutty Boukman

• he was a former enslaved person

• he became a Voudou priest

what was Dutty Boukmens message

• hated the french

• lead others to look to God

• seek for liberty

How did Dutty Boukmen help in the revolution

Boukman Dutty led +100K against the vastly

outnumbered and infinitely hated French

What role did Toussaint L'Ouverture play?

Wanted to ensure the revolution took hold

• Began organizing enslaved people into

military units

Toussaint L'Ouverture

• Former enslaved man

• changed his name to L'Ouverture -

means “opening”

Did not participate in the original uprising

• already emancipated

what did Jean-Jaques Dessaline do

• lead a revolt following the capture of Loverture

• 
  

Jean-Jaques Dessaline

enslaved and illiterate

Haitian decleration of Independence

• written by Jean Jaques Dessalines

• slavery abolished

• all citzens are equal

Consitution

• written by Toussaint Louverture,

• declared indepence from France