Haitian Vodou

The French revolution ideal was to become independent from the crown, whereas the Haitian revolution ideal was to maintain their freedom from the chains. The French revolution’s main motivation was the abuse of power in the hands of the royal, nobles (400 thousand) and the church (100 thousand). Since each class had one vote the church and the nobles joined votes to overrule votes that could have aided the peasants, merchants, etc. (25 million). When the representatives of the 3rd class joined…

e. the leader does not take the general will into account), then the society is doomed to be destroyed. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the varying leadership styles of the Roman general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, and the leader of the Haitian Revolution,…

Egalite for All is a documentary that depicts the events that transpired within the Haitian Revolution. The film sets the timeline for which Haiti also known as Saint-Domingue (1697-1803) sees its revolt from the mother country France. Through a series of uprisings and political/military maneuvers Haiti becomes the first black-led republic in 1804. The film begins with the events of French revolution and the creation of “The Rights of Man”. Both Egalite and the Knight reading share the same…

The next year, 1791, the Haitian revolution began. France, an attempt to diffuse the situation, issued a decree that provided amnesty to all free persons in Saint-Domingue that were charged with “revolutionary acts”. This however, angered the slaves even more and encouraged them to continue in their pursuit of an end to white rule. When their attempts at defusing the situation politically failed, they began to send the French army to take control over the colony. The men that were sent were…

Possessing valuable resources and optimal conditions for growing expensive crops such as sugar, France dedicated much of their money into this little island, allowing Saint Domingue to become the wealthiest colony in this time period. However, the Haitian slaves revolted against the French colonial rulers, resulting in the first complete successful slave rebellion in history. However, the cost of the war, natural disasters, and a French "independence tax" crippled the former colony, leading…

Bruce Xu Section 2 The Black Napoleon Toussaint L'Ouverture was born in 1742, Haiti. He is also a slave but he was educated. He is the leader in Haiti revolution, and he led Haiti people win the colonial power. This revolution is successful; the slaves was liberated, and Haiti became an independent country without slavery. (McNally) Toussaint L'Ouverture got the freedom before the revolution start, but he finally decided to join the revolution because he was invited by other revolutionaries.…

The Haitian Revolution was shaped by the abundant black population. At the time of the revolution there were 500,000 slaves, 30,000 affranchi (free people of color), 15,000 mulatto (mixed race people), and 15,000 blacks had purchased land and bought their freedom. This diverse group of people were the majority of residents in Haiti. Most of the black population was pro-independence because France was not giving them their rights. The French government was indecisive about giving slaves and…

are people all around me chanting in a language I do not understand. Smoke begins to cover the sky. I feel my face becoming hot as if it was being burned. The voices are becoming louder and shockingly, then I notice they are saying phrases in Haitian Creole, my native tongue. “Stay with us,” they would say. I feel as if there is nothing a can do, but at the same time a bright flash is in my face and I can no longer see or hear anything other than a loud ringing in my ear. The light begins…

“Dyaspora”, by Joanne Hyppolite, concentrates on the author’s early life and her experiences in discovering her identity as a Haitian American. In the essay Dyaspora, it speaks of a Haitian girl that was born in Haiti, but brought up in a totally different environment. Because she was brought up in Boston, Massachusetts, she didn’t have the same experiences and upbringing as other Haitian children that were born and raised in Haiti. As the author states, “Outside of our house, you are forced to…

people, listening as they decipher and make assumptions, none all that accurate, about the facts, while you 're left to live those facts. Americans have a lot of opinions about Haiti and about as many questions too. As soon as people know that I’m Haitian, I get flooded with questions that I highly doubt they want the answers to: “Why is Haiti so poor?” “Do you do voodoo?” “Where does all the relief money go?” “Why are the politicians so corrupt?” So never mind the fact that Haiti was the first…