Born on January 26‚ 1813 in Santo Domingo‚ Juan Pablo Duarte is considered one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic. In 1801‚ his parents left the Dominican Republic when Haitian troops‚ under the leadership of Toussaint L ’Ouverture‚ took control of Santo Domingo. They fled to Puerto Rico and resided there until the Spanish regained control of part of the country in the War of Reconquista in 1809. Duarte loved to learn and at a young age was enrolled in one of
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The Wars of Independence in Latin America Rebellions between 1804-1824 Colonial govt. ended in S. America Haiti revolt o led by Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines o Merchant‚ landowner‚ professional class participated (Creole elite) o Natives and blacks didn’t as much Discontentment of Creoles o Slave revolts in Andes‚ scared Creoles o Angry w/Spanish govt.  Taxes too high  Trade limits Peninsulares-whites born in Spain o Got the best positions
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the French monarchy‚ the existence of a large mixed race-class and the extreme conditions in St Domingue .The revolution led to the complete abolition of slavery in St Domingue. It brought about the emergence of some influential leaders such as Toussaint L’ouverture a domestic slave who became a steward of all the livestock on his master’s estate‚ Boukman Dutty who was a Jamaican born who practise vodun (voodoo). He was sold by his British master to a French plantation whose owner but him as a slave
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Proto Renaissance art‚ 1280-1400 Italian Renaissance painting Giotto‚ Lamentation‚ Cappella degli Scrovegni In Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries‚ the sculpture of Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni Pisano‚ working at Pisa‚ Siena and Pistoia shows markedly classicizing tendencies‚ probably influenced by the familiarity of these artists with ancient Roman sarcophagi. Their masterpieces are the pulpits of the Baptistery and Cathedral of Pisa. Contemporary with Giovanni Pisano‚ the
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Eventually she would let go and this became routine whenever I saw her when I was younger. Also‚ I was around seven-years-old when grandma came to visit us. On the ride home we began to slap one another on the arm. It was strange but in a good way. M. Toussaint lived for seventy-one years. Within those seven decades she got married‚ had eleven children which most were able to leave Haiti and build a better life themselves. A life filled with opportunities that was accessible in the country they currently
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Resistance is commonly known as a fight or the opposition of the system of slavery‚ whereas‚ revolt is the refusal to obey or confirm to a certain order. One of the main resistance and revolt that occurred in the Caribbean was the Haitian Revolution. This School Based Assessment (SBA) is aimed at identifying the main causes and effects of the Haitian Revolution. Another aim off this school Based Assessment is to seek to find out why most slave protest and rebellions failed to destroy the system
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surrounding about racial inferiority being debated - from eugenics to fascism - by that same Euro-American audience. James showed how even in the most degraded circumstances‚ slave society had cultivated a leadership that included such figures as Toussaint L’Ouverture‚ Jean-Jacque Dessalines and Henri Christophe. The significance of The Black Jacobins is indicated by one
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providing appropriate historical context and explaining why each is important to the broader themes of our course. Orientalism “Scramble for Africa” Opium War Usman dan Fodio Mfecane Wahhabism Simon Bolívar Sino-Japanese War Muhammad Ali Toussaint L’Ouverture Social Darwinism “The Wealth of Nations” Tabula Rasa Karl Marx Taiping Rebellion Miguel Hidalgo Essays (40 pts): I
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In the years 1650-1880s‚ African slaves were brought to the Americas to work on plantations. Forced labor by the slave owners resulted in high crop yields. This however also resulted in the mistreatment of slaves on the plantations. Most slaves stayed and worked while some went against their owners. In Inhuman Traffick One slave‚ Thomas George‚ was sold into slavery (88). George ended up having an opportunity to leave the Plantation and went with British sailors to find his captors and his wife Sarah
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Cultural Background Haiti is a small country in the Caribbean located on the island of Hispaniola‚ which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Currently‚ Haiti covers the smaller portion of the island on the west end‚ within the Greater Antillean island group of the West Indies. Haiti is the third largest Caribbean nation‚ with 9 million people spread out over 28‚000 km; 2.1 million are concentrated in the capital city of Port-au-Prince (CIA‚ 2010). Vodoun‚ or “Voodoo” is the religion of the
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