Bolívar in Haiti

In 1815-1816, Alexandre Pétion sheltered Simón Bolívar in Haiti and provided him ships, arms, men, and refuge for renewed South American independence campaigns, in exchange for a commitment to abolish slavery in the territories Bolívar liberated. The episode shows Haiti acting as a revolutionary power in the hemisphere rather than an isolated victim state. The later diplomatic order that emerged from South American independence nonetheless treated Haiti as politically inadmissible, an irony that Fischer traces as a central example of Atlantic disavowal.