Haitian Revolution

Alexandre Pétion - General, later President of southern Haiti

Boukman Dutty - Led Bois Caïman ceremony

Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc - Commanded expedition, died of fever

revolution — Model, inspiration, and potential source of material support in Genovese's account

marie-joseph-de-rochambeau - Brutal successor to Leclerc

Used the Haitian Revolution first as economic opening (to expand Cuban sugar) and later as political warning (to resist abolition proposals).

Henri Christophe - General, later King of northern Haiti

Exemplifies the revolution's transformation of enslaved people into political actors — from colony to metropole.

jacques-dessalines - Led final war, first ruler of Haiti

Brown's radical antislavery and willingness to arm and fight for Black freedom placed him in the tradition Haiti's revolution had inaugurated.

Guadeloupe's defeat proved emancipation inside French sovereignty could be reversed; Dessalines cited Delgrès in the 1805 Constitution as a martyr whose example made Haitian independence thinkable as the only secure guarantee.

félicité-sonthonax - Issued 1793 emancipation

revolution — Broader military-political context.

Napoleon Bonaparte - Sent expedition to restore slavery

revolution — Model and revolutionary horizon in Genovese's framework

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Haitian Revolution

Toussaint Louverture - Dominant figure 1794-1802

Haitian Revolution

Étienne Polverel - Fellow commissioner

The Haitian Revolution was the primary political inspiration for Aponte's network

Battle of Vertières

Bois Caïman Ceremony

The episode extended the Haitian Revolution's antislavery influence into the Spanish American independence movements

The council was a key institution in the pre-emancipation political history of the revolution

The Haitian Revolution forced the emancipation decree and its reversal shaped the revolution's final phase

Haitian Declaration of Independence

The declaration was the culminating political act of the Haitian Revolution

Independence was the culminating political act of the Haitian Revolution

The expedition was Napoleon's attempt to reverse the revolutionary transformations of Saint-Domingue

The project is a digital humanities visualization of the Haitian Revolution from precolonial period through the 1820s

The rebellion reveals that the revolution's deepest social conflict ran inside Black rule itself after abolition

The revolt belongs to the pre-revolutionary political history that shaped the conditions for 1791

The rebellion widened the temporal frame of the Haitian Revolution, showing that democracy remained unresolved decades after 1804

Pont-Rouge marks the first decisive internal rupture of the revolutionary leadership after independence

Haitian Revolution

Haitian Revolution - The context for the renaming

Tens of thousands of Saint-Domingue refugees — enslaved and free — fled to Cuba during and after the revolution.

Guadeloupe's enslaved population rose in the wake of the Haitian Revolution.

Martinique's enslaved population was influenced by the Haitian Revolution.

Saint-Domingue was the colonial name of the territory that became Haiti after the revolution.

Enlightenment philosophy provided ideological resources for the Haitian Revolution.

Code Noir - The legal system the revolution destroyed

Haitian Revolution

Haitian Revolution - The event whose memory the calendar perpetuates

Tradition of resistance the revolution drew upon

Haitian Revolution

Haitian Revolution

Spiritual foundation of revolutionary solidarity

Haitian Revolution - The successful uprising this solidarity enabled

Yellow Fever - The "invisible ally" that decimated French forces