Summary Of 200 Years Of Forgetting: Hushing Up The Haitian Revolution

The article titled " 200 Years of Forgetting: Hushing up the Haitian Revolution" by Thomas Reinhardt was eye-opening for me. Throughout my education, I have always heard about slaves and the rebellions they pursued to fight inequality; however, I was never told that a slave rebellion was successful or revolutionary. All of my teachers in the past seemed neutral on the situation, and I thought I was the only one who was proud of the slaves that rebelled in ways they had to obtain freedom. This being said, I do not believe it is wise to go out and kill your enemies, but that is the way things had to be settled during the times of slavery. In modern times within the United States, we don't have to worry about situations like these because all
First, African Americans were healthy and immune to most diseases that many other enslaved races were becoming deathly ill over. Also, since African Americans were native to Africa, they did not know the layout of the land. This is important because if a slave knew the area and had family willing to help, slaves could easily escape their enslavement. African Americans were very unfamiliar with North America, and most of their distant or nuclear family resided in Africa or were taken to other towns around America also to become slaves. Moving on, the salves in the United States did not revolt in the same degree as they did in Haiti, but a lot of African Americans did attempt or even successfully completed smaller revolts like Shay's Rebellion. I think the failure to group and rebel could stem from plantations being a considerable distance apart and slaves not being able to leave the estates. Also, the slave codes did not allow for African Americans to meet together in groups. Finally, because African Americans were the minority, it is possible that they failed to revolt simply out of fear. Many of them would face death or torturous punishment if found trying to organize against the