MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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A revolt of the Haitians destroyed the hopes of the French takeover.
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They lead an attack on North America.
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They destroyed the slaves rebellion.
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They sent over more troops to prepare for the attack.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Put simply, the Haitian Revolution, a series of conflicts between 1791 and 1804, was the overthrow of the French regime in Haiti by the Africans and their descendants who had been enslaved by the French and the establishment of an independent country founded and governed by former slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -France became the first nation to recognize its independence. Haiti thus emerged as the first black republic in the world, and the second nation in the western hemisphere (after the United States) to win its independence from a European power. More about the Haitian Revolution via Wikipedia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Domingue by the French revolutionary government convinced one of the slave revolt leaders, Toussaint L’Ouverture, that the new French Government was committed to ending slavery. What followed over the next decade was a complex and multi-sided civil war in which Spanish and British forces also intervened.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Haitian Revolution is the only successful slave revolt in history, and resulted in the establishment of Haiti, the first independent black state in the New World.