April
6 Reverberations
Atlantic revolutions
key terms: Saint Domingue, Vincent Ogé, Abbé Grégoire, Léger Sonthonax,
Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacque Dessalines
Toussaint
Louverture
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I. recap: the French Revolution and human rights
II. the question of free blacks and slaves
slavery and antislavery
Abbé Raynal, Philosophical and Political History of the
Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies
(1770)
Marquis de
Condorcet
Society of
the Friends of Blacks (1788)
Abbé Grégoire
Saint Domingue
demographics
grands blancs
petits
blancs (radical whites, Patriots)
black
population
gens de couleur
free blacks
mulattos
slaves
population of
Saint Domingue, 1789
| Slaves |
c. 500,000 |
| Whites |
30,800 |
| Free blacks |
24,800 |
outline of events
i. 1789-
free men of color claim rights as citizens
ii.
1791- slave rebellion
iii.
1793- international conflict
iv.
1794- rise of Louverture and internal power struggles
v.
1802- defeat of France and birth of Haiti
the idea of liberty
