Haiti's Struggle For Freedom: The Haitian Revolution

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I think some countries still do but not as much as before. The fact that millions of slave over ruled their slave masters and took over a whole country by themselves worried a lot of other countries about their slaves doing that to them. The first black independent country sounded very weird to many other countries because if you were black you were a slave so them having a whole country to themselves was just very unordinary. Haiti wanted equality for everyone so they had to get their equality first in order to fulfill their desire of freedom and equality. The Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion in the country of Haiti to get freedom. They fought against the French and gained their independence in 1804. Toussaint L’Overture was a key

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