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    30-Crash Course World History Video Notes The Haitian Revolution 1. The _____________ colony in Saint Domingue began in the 17th century as a pirate outpost. Its original French inhabitants made their living selling leather and a kind of smoked beef called boucan. 2. After 1640‚ the boucan-sellers started to run low on beef and turned to robbing Spanish galleons which as you’ll recall were loaded with _____________mined from South America. 3. By the middle of the 17th century‚ many of them invested

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    SLAVE ORIGIN Slaves were taken from the following areas: -Lagos -Elmina -Whydah -Gold Coast -Senegambia -Guinea Coast -Badagri -Ivory Coast Raiders would enter villages quietly‚ in the night and set fire to slave houses. In the confusion and panic they easily collected the villagers‚ tied them in pairs around the neck using forked sticks and placed them into slave coffles. This was done quickly as they feared the villagers might have had reinforcements. The

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    Introduction on human impact of natural resources Human impact on the environment includes impacts on biophysical environments‚ biodiversity ‚ and other resources. energy The human impact of energy harvesting and consumption is diverse. In recent years there has been a trend towards the increased commercialization of various renewable energy sources. In the real world of consumption of fossil fuel resources which lead to global warming and climate change. However

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    Who were the Tainos? The Taino (pronounced Tah-EE-no) were the first "American" Indigenous Peoples encountered by Christopher Columbus and other Europeans in the Caribbean Islands in 1492. The Taino are also the first Indigenous Peoples to be referred to as "Indians" (Indios) in the Western Hemisphere. The traditional territories of the Taino extended throughout the Greater Antilles‚ the Bahamas‚ and even the Southern tip of Florida. The word "Taino" means "good people" in their ancient language

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    the hands of the people in the form of moral outrage. Beik acknowledges that the beheading and subsequent parading of heads through the streets and the guillotine paint the very picture of the French revolution. Similarly‚ beheading in front of large audiences was also a feature of the Haitian revolution. The queen’s friend‚ the Princesse de Lamballe was reportedly stripped naked‚ raped and beheaded during the September massacres of 1792 in France. The parading of her head on a pike in front of a large

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    Haitian Revolution At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789‚ the colony of St. Domingue‚ now Haiti‚ furnished two-thirds of France’s overseas trade‚ employed one thousand ships and fifteen thousand French sailors. The colony became France’s richest‚ the envy of every other European nation. This plantation system‚ which provided such a pivotal role in the French economy‚ was also the greatest individual market for the African slave trade. Yet‚ conflict and resentment permeated the society

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    livelihood and well being of the newly formed and fragile United States. Early on‚ the French and Haitian Revolutions presented challenges for the government that needed to be dealt with. One such problem was the lingering commitment to France in the form of the treaty signed in 1778 that required the United States to aid France “as France had assisted the American states” during their own revolution. (Nash‚ et al.‚ 2007.‚ p. 227) While some were sympathetic to France’s cause others feared becoming

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    The Haitian Revolution‚ though indisputably the most powerful revolution of the country‚ was not the first instance of slave altercation. François Mackandal was a maroon (runaway slave in search of independence) who had a high influence in Haiti around 1757. He was a famous hougan‚ or Haitian priest of voodoo‚ and was thought to possess black magic. The reality‚ however‚ was that he was very talented in using natural plants in the concoction of poisons‚ which earned him the sobriquet “Lord of Poison”

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    Before the revolution‚ Haiti‚ or Saint Domingue was an area of land with almost exclusively sugarcane plantations. So how could the majority black‚ enslaved‚ population rise up and win independence? Well‚ Despite the overwhelming oppression from France‚ the slave ridden colony of Saint-Domingue successfully gained their independence through great leaders‚ revolutionary thought and manpower. Saint Domingue was colonized by France‚ so inevitable the French Revolution had some impact on the colony

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    The French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution has similarities like slaves and peasants are doing the labor of their country‚ believed in having equality‚ liberalism and authority over their choice‚ but also different by their rebellion purpose. France was one of the countries that Haiti was inspired to rebel because they gave hope to them. Influenced by similar events‚ such as the enlightenment‚ these two revolutions are intertwined with each other. At the end of their fight‚ both countries won

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