“By creating a society in which all people, of all colors, were granted freedom and citizenship, the Haitian Revolution forever transformed the world. It was a central part of the destruction of slavery in the Americas, and therefore a crucial moment in the history of democracy, one that laid the foundation for the continuing struggles for human rights everywhere. In this sense we are all descendents of the Haitain Revolution, and responsible to these ancestors.” DemocracyRevolutionHuman RightsHaitiHaitian Revolution Book:Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution Source: Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.” WayWellsKindDesireOpportunityLanguageLevelsRightsRevolutionEqualTransformationStructureStartingConnectedIdeologyEmpiresComing OutRegimesEqual RightsAmerican RevolutionEmergenceFrench RevolutionPlantations Author:Laurent Dubois
“The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.” FirstsBigsRememberRevolutionSlaveScalesExperimentsDramaticRegimesEmancipationLarge ScaleHaitianHaitian Revolution Author:Laurent Dubois