Account for the success of the Haitian Revolution
“Few wars have been so completely destructive as was the Haitian Revolution”. Once known as the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti was given the nickname Pearl of the Antilles by the French, referring to both the beauty of its landscape as well as the wealth it brings to the Kingdom of France. How many people knew that Haiti was once richer than the United States of America? Haiti, or previously named Saint Domingue was the world’s most efficient and productive sugar producers in the late 1780s. The demand for sugar was high at the time, and the French tried different approaches to increase sugar productivity; this included the construction of a complex irrigation system in 1730s by French engineers as well as the extensive labour weighed upon the enslaved Africans.
Unity in Sharing of Cultural and Historical Background
These slaves were driven to work in the sugar plantation with constant torment and fatigue. The leaves of the sugar plants were blade-like and their overseers always had a ready-hand to work the whip. The sheer brutality happening in the sugar plantations meant that slaves often survived for only a few years, due to malnutrition, insufficient food and shelter, and poor access to medical care. Due to the high mortality rate which surpasses the birth rate, the white …show more content…
Even today, Haiti is a ‘Paradox Island’ as Philippe Girard puts it. Founded on egalitarian principles where all human beings are equal, Haitians relentlessly express anti-French and anti-American sentiments. Their ancestors who fought to end slavery must not have thought that the land they fought to live a better life would end up practicing child slavery in the 21st
“Few wars have been so completely destructive as was the Haitian Revolution”. Once known as the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti was given the nickname Pearl of the Antilles by the French, referring to both the beauty of its landscape as well as the wealth it brings to the Kingdom of France. How many people knew that Haiti was once richer than the United States of America? Haiti, or previously named Saint Domingue was the world’s most efficient and productive sugar producers in the late 1780s. The demand for sugar was high at the time, and the French tried different approaches to increase sugar productivity; this included the construction of a complex irrigation system in 1730s by French engineers as well as the extensive labour weighed upon the enslaved Africans.
Unity in Sharing of Cultural and Historical Background
These slaves were driven to work in the sugar plantation with constant torment and fatigue. The leaves of the sugar plants were blade-like and their overseers always had a ready-hand to work the whip. The sheer brutality happening in the sugar plantations meant that slaves often survived for only a few years, due to malnutrition, insufficient food and shelter, and poor access to medical care. Due to the high mortality rate which surpasses the birth rate, the white …show more content…
Even today, Haiti is a ‘Paradox Island’ as Philippe Girard puts it. Founded on egalitarian principles where all human beings are equal, Haitians relentlessly express anti-French and anti-American sentiments. Their ancestors who fought to end slavery must not have thought that the land they fought to live a better life would end up practicing child slavery in the 21st