Toussaint L Ouverture And The Haitian Revolution

The question of this investigation is: To what extent did the efforts of Toussaint L’ouverture help the island of Saint Domingue socially, politically receive its independence?

The Haitian Revolution was a social and political disturbance in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (which shared the island of Hispaniola with the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo) during the period from 1791 to 1804. In 1791, slaves and gens de couleur libres (“free people of color”) fought against French rule, with the support of Toussaint L’ouverture. Then, in 1804, the country professed their independence under the original Arawak name of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution was one of the most important and dramatic challenges to European colonialism in the New World,
The origin of this source is valuable because Neil Faulkner is a freelance archaeologist and historian. He works as a writer, lecturer, excavator, and occasional broadcaster. However, the origin of the source is limited in that Faulkner is not a professional expert in the Haitian history, with which this topic is closely related and, consequently, might have misinterpreted some Haitian historic facts presented.
The purpose of Faulkner’s article is to analyze how the Haitian Revolution impacted the social society of the Haitian community. This is valuable, because it explains how Toussaint became the leader of a swelling rebellion of the entire black population of Haiti. His army – disciplined, mobile, combat effective – became the spine of the slave
They were very frustrated when planter opposition kept the National Assembly from granting them equal rights with the whites. In October 1790, a free colored leader, Vincent Ogé, returned to Saint Domingue from France and led an armed uprising. He did not try to gain support among the slaves, and his movement was quickly crushed by the trained white troops on the island. Ogé and his followers were executed in a particularly cruel manner. When news of the executions reached France, the National Assembly blamed the colonists for their severity and passed a decree granting rights to a minority of the free colored population. The revolutionaries were beginning to move away from unswerving support for the whites in the colonies. Before this split could grow, however, the white colonists in Saint Domingue found themselves facing a much more serious danger. On the night of 21-22 August 1791, a coordinated slave revolt broke out in the north of the island, the area of the largest plantations. Black slaves massacred their masters, and set fire to plantation buildings. At the same time, a separate rebellion started among the free coloreds in the west of Saint Domingue. Saint Domingue was the richest European colony in the world. It was the main source of the sugar and coffee that had become indispensable to “civilized”