History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1074 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Haiti
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The idea
The French Revolution inspired slave rebellions in the Caribbean, including an uprising in Saint-Domingue in seventeen ninety-one.
In practice
Enslaved people taking control of a large section of the island, burning sugar plantations and killing those who had forced them to labour.
Where people slip
French revolutionaries abolished slavery in seventeen ninety-four.
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