Rebellion of the Slaves in Santo Domingo

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This print shows the 1791 slave insurrection in the French colony of Saint-Domingue which sparked the Haitian Revolution. By 1804, Haiti was an independent republic–a black republic–in which slavery was abolished. Haiti was also the second republic (after the U.S.) in the Western Hemisphere that resulted from a colonial war for independence.


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