Haitian Revolution
Homework: Blog Post Blog must be posted with response by Thursday, 2-22 at 10pm
Write as one of the following: Louverture, a grand blanc, a gen de coleur, a former slave, or Napoleon. Discuss the successes and failures of the Haitian Revolution and respond to at least ONE other characters position.
Respond as one of the following based on your last name:
Louverture (A - F)
A Grand Blanc (G - K)
A Gen de Coleur (L - P)
A Former Slave (Q - T)
Napoleon (U - Z)
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ReplyDeleteAs the leader of France, I, Napoleon Bonaparte, believe that the Haitian Revolution has brought many successes and failures. One of their successes was being able to claim the enlightenment values of liberty, equality, and fraternity. I strongly believe in equality, in fact, I have reflected the equality principle in my Napoleonic Code of law. I think that equality is very important for a revolution since it guarantees better treatment of people, thus, it is a very important principle to fight for. I do admire how the slaves won the revolution since it takes a lot of battle strategies and good weapons to fight against colonist. One of the Haitian Revolution’s failures was that even though Haiti won the revolution, they get a trade embargo and have to pay enormous reparations to the colonial powers such as America and France. This is a failure for them because they already had such a poor economy since most of the populations are slaves and are poor. Haiti does not get any profit from trade because of the trade embargo from several countries. However, in my point of view this is good because France gets money from Haiti without having to do anything for them. Another one of their mistakes is establishing a republic in their new independent nation. France was once a republic, however, that ended as soon as I became power. I saw all the flaws in a republic nation such as internal instability easily developing and giving the power of a nation to several people. France is now under the power of one person, me. Power under one person is much easier to control a nation and is easier to make a decision since only one person’s opinion counts. As long as a nation has a good leader, like me, the nation will last longer than a republic, that has a lot of leaders that have different opinions and can barely come to an agreement.
ReplyDelete- Napoleon/Jenna Wang
DeleteAs Louverture, I agree with you that the success of the Haitian Revolution was gaining liberty, equality, and fraternity. Those are the main goals of our revolution, and we wanted that because we were treated horribly prior to the uprisings. We wanted equality, for we were mistreated by the French and the slaveholders and put in horrible conditions to work in. This is great for Haiti, we won independence and gained the main goals that any revolution looks towards. It took lots of bravery to fight against the French, and I am glad that we were able to gain independence and liberty, equality, and fraternity.
DeleteI also agree with you that equality is something very important. I also thank you for recognizing the effort and the organization that was put into us winning independence from you and the French. Finally, I agree with you on that a the Haitian Revolution was negative on trade. Us Haitians were excluded from trade because of our revolt.
Delete- Louverture / Diego Chavez
A major success of the Haitian Revolution was my doing in stopping slavery under the French. As I was a slave myself, I could understand the struggle of these people, so I didn’t want them living in such horrid and unfavorable conditions. I was also able to get my family, who were also slaves, to safety on the eastern side of Haiti, which was ruled by the Spanish. Another success of the Haitian Revolution is that I was able to grant Haiti independence after having slaves fight alongside me against French forces under Napoleon. This allowed for a majority of the population to stand up for what they believed was right after years of mistreatment by plantation owners: freedom for slaves. It seemed that slaves had the upper hand over forces in times of difficulty in the nation. I was also about to receive Napoleon’s loyalty, so he allowed for equality amongst the people in the colonies, since I was worrisome to fight for independence against such a powerful and wealthy nation. After I died, Haiti was a free nation, but was completely underdeveloped and lacked resources that the colony had under French rule. With this, there was a drop in the economy that couldn’t be restored without the help of outside nations. Violence erupted again amongst the slaves, which the common folk said that I inspired from my slave revolts to begin the Haitian Revolution. Since Haiti was experiencing an economic downfall, political administrators became corrupt within the government. This resulted in the weakening of the new nation, which made it difficult to provide support and try to revive it. Due to my idea of sparking a rebellion, slaves wouldn’t have been free and they wouldn’t have had an upper hand over their owners. However, the country was underdeveloped and not strong enough to stand on its own after I contributed to giving the colony independence from Napoleon and France.
ReplyDelete- Louverture / Lauren Feldman
Toussaint Louverture, although I feel that you are an honorable man and a good general who has done much for Haiti, I must highly contest your view of an independent Haiti free of slaves as a good thing. Now I do have to commend your fight for equality and your ability to even best my troops in warfare. However, my admiration for your talent as an ambitious general can not excuse my distaste for your claims of independence. For if you do claim independence from Haiti then your nation itself will suffer. As now you lack the political and economic protections given to you from the French Empire. By doing so you will submit your people to the horrifying decisions of the uninformed in your republic which is open to slaves and you lose one of your best trading partners for sugar, which will lead to a lose of the economic system which secured your country since its founding. Yet, you fail to also take into account the damage you will also enact onto France both for its control of the West Indies and its economic power invested in Haiti. For that, your idea of liberty in the independence of Haiti, although born from noble ambition, will bring weakness upon both our countries both economically and politically, therefore showing that you are a dangerous person who must be dealt with.
Delete-Napoleon-Aaron Ullman
With your undeniable organization skills and military prowess, I agree that sparking the rebellion was the right thing to do to give equality. The rebellion was able to give the us the rights that the gen de coleur deserved. The rights had been granted to us, but in Saint Domingue in was not enforced. This failed to give us our rights, that is, until your slave rebellions demanded equality for all. Though it destroyed our economy, my dream and original goal of equality was achieved with your inspiration for the slaves.
Delete-Gen De Coleur/Stacey Lai
I believe one success of the Haitian Revolution was that I gained independence for Haiti. This was a major success, for we won independence from France and we no longer have them controlling our people. We completed the goal that we needed to, and we were free from slavery and everybody had the chance to be equal now. We were put under harsh and inhumane conditions, as many of the slaves were getting killed and mistreated under France. I also led a successful slave rebellion, which allowed us to overpower France and the white people and become independent. Another successful thing that happened in the Haitian Revolution is the new constitution I made for Haiti, or Saint Domingue. We were finally allowed a voice in the upper class, and the constitution granted no slavery and equality in Haiti. Liberty, equality, and fraternity were all a part of the new constitution that I made. One failure of the Haitian Revolution is that many of our men got killed with rebelling against the slave holders and the French. For example, the Haitian voodoo priest died during the revolt. Many unnecessary deaths occurred for our men, and I believe that is a failure of the Haitian Revolution.
ReplyDeleteLouverture - Jared Chavez
DeleteAs a gen de coleur, I support and trust you as a military leader in this Revolution, and fully respect you as you brought more equality to us colored people, ending discrimination against us simply because of the color of our skin. I also agree with how much of a success it was to gain our independence from France. Now I can actually think and do things for myself, without trying so hard to fit in with the Frenchmen as to not get clumped in along with the slaves. I also agree that the end to racial discrimination is a huge leap in the right direction. All free people should be created equal, not thought of as lesser humans because of their skin color. I can also see what you are talking about with the death toll being high, but we did fight in a war. We knew what we were getting into when we burned those villages, and I’m sure those who died for Haiti did it with pride. I think the bigger issue at hand would be the future of the economy because we were previously all used to being subordinate to the white slave and land owners. We will need to learn how to properly manage our economy after this, and I think some structure needs to emerge (with us gens de colour as the upper class and the freed slaves as the working class). Overall, though, thank you, Mr. Louverture, for everything you have done for Haiti in this Revolution. We will forever remember you.
Delete-Gen de Coleur / Macy McPherson
One successful outcome of the Haitian Revolution was that Haiti gained independence from France and we were able to grant all of our slaves free. We were able to accomplish this with my rebellion against the French. I lead my army of slaves against the French and my slavery rebellion we were able to successfully fight Napoleon's French gaining our independence. A negative effect coming from the Haitian was that when I had later died, we, Haiti, were in some trouble. We were excluded from trade because of the rebellion and the color of our skin. Another negative was that, unlike me, all these free slaves have no education whatsoever. They couldn't read or write, affecting the economy even more.
ReplyDelete- Louverture / Diego Chavez
I agree with you Louverture! As a gen de coleur, I feel the Haitian Revolution was a success because slaves and us colored people, such as the gen de coleur, gained more equality. It is true that Haiti gained its independence through this rebellion as well, ushering in less discrimination due to race. I feel that the rebellion was also somewhat of a failure. Many of the plantations were burned to the ground, destroying livelihoods, such as mine. Without these plantations, Haiti was thrown into poverty. Overall, I agree with your postion that the Haitian Revolution has successes because of more equality for all people.
Delete- A gen de coleur / Emerson Meeks
I think you should really rethink your definition of success, Toussaint Louverture. It is true that you owned slaves yourself and even produced sugar for export. You benefited greatly from this but still decided to rebel against us. This was much more of a failure in your part because if you had not led the Haitian revolution, you would have prospered with the rest of us wealthier class peoples. Granted it is true that we would own more than you because of your colour, but you would still exercise more rights than the majority of the Slaves. I agree with you that the excluding of trade in San Domingue was a failure as well because the colony was a major exporting ground for sugar, the lands were rich and they were plenty as well. This colony was highly beneficial to France, but you decided it was it good idea to burn down all the plantations anyways, leaving no sugar to trade to others and none for my benefit either.
Delete-Grand Blanc/ William Jiang
As a gen de coleur, or person of color, I am one of about 30,000 black people who had a slightly better position in society than the slaves. Before the Revolution, I thought I had it okay because I was better off than the slaves. However, I was never truly content with myself because I wanted so much to be like the Frenchmen, but they would never let me in. I wore their clothes, owned a few slaves just like they did, and denied my connection to Africa completely. Yet, they wouldn’t even give me a second thought when it came to asking for my citizenship, and I was seen as a lesser person than the free whites and discriminated against. This all changed with the massive successes of the Haitian Revolution. Toussaint Louverture’s great military rule took the “superior” whites off of their high horses and allowed for us gens de colour to gain the same amount of respect for them. We worked so hard to fit in with them, myself especially, and were only excluded from their elite group because of our skin color and country of origin. I believe it was a massive success that Louverture was able to make such an impact and a difference for the black community, ending discrimination in and of itself. We also were able to free ourselves from their shadow, another major success, seeing how we were now respected and trusted with holding Haiti in our own hands, rather than just those of the Frenchmen. I feel like there were mostly positive outlooks on the rebellion from my point of view, however, we did experience some negative impacts. The biggest failure was in burning and leaving all of the sugar and coffee plantations out for nothing. We were excluded from the luxury goods of the rest of the world and often barely had enough food to feed ourselves, but no one wanted to go back to work in the fields again. I lost my favoritism and respect over the (now freed) slaves, and I think that was a mistake. The slaves should still have to produce some food to keep Haiti on its feet, but they will do so because it is their duty and not because of the color of their skin. Thus, although I believe the successes outweigh the failures of the Haitian Revolution, there were a few things that I think should be fixed if we want to be successful in the future.
ReplyDelete-Gen de Coleur / Macy McPherson
As the leader of France and a military general I do admire the people of Haiti’s fight for freedom and their military perseverance, however I must say that I highly disagree with the recent revolts within Haitian Revolution which have displaced our troops and our nation's power, however. Although I highly disagree with the Haitian Revolution, I did find the fight for equality within Haiti as admirable, previously I supported the revolution within France and I continued to push for equal rights within France with my acceptance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen which carried over into my law code, the Napoleonic Codes. However, I feel that the economic importance needed for France with slavery is too much to quickly dispose of, therefore I feel that it was important for me to allow slavery on the colonies for the economic success of both France and Haiti. Furthermore, I do also admire the Haitians fight for equality and their military might when doing so, although I support their fight against Britain and Spain, I must detest their actions against France. This leads me to my biggest complaint with the Haitian Revolution, being that it pushed a French colony to independence. This is a horrible move for both France and Haiti, as now France loses one of its most profitable colonies and some of its control over the West Indies. Due to this insubordination to its parent colony, I was essentially forced to send my troops to show to the world that France would not be defeated by a small island force, and through the rebellious methods they pushed France from Haiti which hurts both France and myself. Yet, this will not be as dramatic as the problems being inflicted upon Haiti itself, as now Haiti will be weak through the loss of our support and will see economic ruin through its lose of our full economic support of the nation for its sugar. However, Haiti will find itself weak through the loss of its leader, Louverture. This will politically fracture Haiti and show them the consequences of independence. Therefore, I Napoleon Bonaparte, must condemn the Haitian Revolution, as although it came to be through an admirable fight for liberty with intelligent techniques in the art of war, the pursuit of independence and the liberation of slaves will both hurt France and Haiti and for that we must pay a burden to let them learn the price of independence.
ReplyDelete-Napoleon/Aaron Ullman
As a Gen de Coleur, I must disagree with your statement of how Haiti should remain under France. I find that France has ignored the concerns of Haiti for far too long and only took from us the crops that we worked to grow. France had stood idle while the people of color, such as myself, faced discrimination due to our color from these free whites. Haiti will be able to prosper just as well without France while the people of France will suffer without the crops that we produced which had previously made up one third of your international trade. Just as how you had said our fight for equality was admirable, we will not submit under French rule again or allow ourselves to be considered inferior to the white people such as yourselves again.
Delete- Gen de Coleur/Cathleen Liang
I believe that your rule, which you claim is a republic, is treating the slaves unfairly. They shouldn’t be bought and sold as items, but as actual equals, able to have their own jobs and not work to benefit the wealthy. They need to be able to benefit themselves as well. Most slaves’ only wish is when they are free, they want to provide for the good of themselves rather than exports. Crops will still be necessary to be produced in order for Haiti to stay economically prosperous, so freeing slaves won’t do harm to the great profits that you have made for France. If anything freeing slaves will unify Haiti more, so there will be less conflict and tensions and you will still benefit from the wealth exported from the colony.
Delete- Louverture / Lauren Feldman
As a Gen de Coleur, I am a free man and lived a life of comfort in comparison to the enslaved people. Prior to the Haitian Revolution, I was able to work as a small planter and adopted the French culture but was discriminated against due to my color. Despite denying my African roots, I was still not accepted by the free whites of Saint Domingue. With such, I believe one of the successes of the Haitian Revolution was the representative given to the free colored men. Due to the Haitian Revolution, myself and my fellow people of color no longer have to put up with the discrimination forced upon us. Louverture was able to create a new region where I no longer am looked down upon due to my color. Another success lies in the fact that we had created the first black republic. We had won our equality as well as our independence from France. However, one of the failures of the Haitian Revolution was the damage it had done to our economy and the brutality of such. During the Revolution, fields and refineries were burned, destroying our economy based on plantations. While slavery wasn’t necessarily good, it had destroyed my previous occupation and job, putting myself out of business. In addition, the excessive deaths was another failure of the Haitian Revolution. I stand impartial to the ideas of slavery and while I am happy others of my color are free, I also do not see myself apart of them, rejecting my connections to Africa. The amount of death that had resulted due to the slave rebellions were unnecessary and could’ve been avoided.
ReplyDelete- Gen De Coleur/Cathleen Liang
I agree with all of this because since we are all free men now, it makes us all equal, and we can stand together without color portraying us. I believe that there was more a success for us as we both have some similar stand before the revolution. It is good that we are no longer looked down upon as you had pointed out, and that now we can live in peace and harmony. I believe that the slavery wasn't necessary at all and that people should do their own work, or have fair working conditions with well payed wages if they wanted work to be done. I think that Haitian revolution was bad in that now we have to build our economy, as we have a low standing economy at the moment, and we have to get new partners to export and import materials with.
Delete- Former Slave// Brandon Shelton
Before the Haitian Revolution, I had a better life than the slaves, being a freeman, but I was still discriminated by the white planters. I was a gen de coleur—a person of color. Despite my efforts to be totally French, like following French habits and dress, the white planters were able to gain French citizenship, while I was not. I was able to, however, own a few plantations myself. The successes that the Haitian revolution gave to me was that I could gain french citizenship. This grants me the rights to the Rights of Man in France. This enabled me to have the same rights as the white planters. Therefore, another success of the Haitian Revolution was that I was no longer discriminated. On the other hand, my newfound equality also had a few drawbacks. While I was satisfied when France granted me and my fellow people of color the rights in the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, my own plantations were destroyed with the slave revolt that occurred afterwards. I had worked hard to fight discrimination, and built a somewhat comfortable life for myself. Now, after the revolution, all my plantations, the basis of the economy, were gone. While my original goal of equality was achieved, the revolution also brought destruction of the Haitian economy.
ReplyDelete-Gen De Coleur/Stacey Lai
As a gen de coleur, or a man of color, my social standing was slightly better than that of a slave, and worse than a white mans. I am a free man, but I am mixed in race. There were around 30,000 of us a gen de coleur living in Saint Domingue, or Haiti as it is called now. Before the Haitian Revolution, I enjoyed several of the luxuries enjoyed by the whites, but I also faced inequality in my daily life. For example, when meeting a white person in public, I had to call them by their chosen title. The Haitian Revolution changed my life as a gen de coleur. One success was the eventual elimination of discrimination against race. Haita became the first Black republic in the Western hemisphere, ushering in equal rights for us gen de coleur and former slaves. In addition, another success of the revolution brought about citizenship for us gen de coleur. With the letter we sent to Paris concerning our rights and citizenship, we were able to accomplish our goal. This was a success, even if it was short lived. On the other hand, I feel on failure of the Haitian Revolution was the destruction of the infrastructure, such as sugar plantation fields. This destroyed Haiti’s economy, as well as my livelihood. Overall, I feel the Haitian Revolution was more of a success than a failure, due to the elimination of discrimination and more equality.
ReplyDeleteA gen de coleur / Emerson Meeks
As a former slave, the successes of the Haitian revolution would be that I am now a free man. Now that all men have equal rights, slavery is of no more. There are no more harsh conditions of people working countless hours, being treated differently, and having different rights. I was a slave and I know how it felt to be one of those people. Now with equality with all men, I can feel at one with myself. Another good thing is that we have been excluded from trade because since I know how to grow crops, I would just like to continue to grow the food that I need for myself and my family. France would continuously take most of our resources that I worked hard on. With what we have, we can produce our own exports. Bad things would be that now we are a new nation and have to start making our own alliances as France won't be taking part with us anytime soon. We need people to export with as France depleted us of our exports, and we must build our economy again.
ReplyDeleteBrandon Shelton//Former Slave
I have similar experiences to you because I faced discrimination and benefitted from the equality and citizenship that we gained, but as a gen de coleur I also faced different consequences of the revolution. The destruction caused from the revolution destroyed many of the plantations, a few of which that I owned myself. Although you may have economically benefitted, I lost some of my assets. Additionally, being able to profit from our own exports once the plantations are rebuilt will be beneficial, but as the first slave republic, trade may be difficult. The revolution was successful for us, but failed to immediately spread to other parts of the world. Many people might avoid trade with us for risk of sparking rebellion in their own slaves. For this, I also agree with you on how it will be difficult to make alliances. The destruction of fields and the fact that slavery was not abolished globally are a few mentionable failures.
Delete-Gen de Coleur/Nicola Lai
I totally agree with your statement, as we need to rebuild our economy to our own needs and forget the main focus of exporting. Why work hard in harsh conditions just to produce crops to in the end won't get any of it in return. Though I wish all of you didn't burn down these plantations as the process of rebuilding our economy will take longer. After this Haitian Revolution I am glad that we both are no longer discriminated by those greedy Frenchmen and will no longer have to work in such filthy and cruel working conditions. In the end, for you and I, we both benefited heavily from this Haitian Revolution
Delete-Gen de Coleur/Raul Perez
DeleteI agree with your statement completely because just like you I was once a slave. Now, that we are free from all the harsh work and we now have rights just like the rest of man, is something amazing. This revolution has brought equality to us and we can finally leave a free life. The Haitian Revolution brought us something, we can now launch onto forever. We know do not have to face segregation and discrimination because we are now all equal. I am extremely grateful that I have been granted my freedom. I now live a full life.
Delete- Former Slave / Myah Shaikh
Before the Haitian Revolution I had a better position than slaves as a gens de coleur, or a free colored person, yet I continued to face unfair discrimination. During the revolution, many of us did not participate on the side of the slaves at first, not because we did not want equality, but because we had wanted to keep our already earned freedom and privileges. We had hoped to become more accepted by the French. One success of the revolution was how colored people earned more freedom and equality. We were able to abolish slavery and, more importantly for me, we were able to establish equality. Discrimination against us was stopped, especially because of the first Slave Republic that was created. This also meant that our risk of returning to slavery or discrimination decreased, as long as we defend our state. There were a few downfalls to this equality and freedom. As a free person, I had owned land and some of us had owned our own slaves. The burning of the plantations made me lose much of what I had worked hard for. The economy of Haiti also declined as we had to rebuild and recover from the fires and destruction the revolt had brought. Another failure was the violence that the Haitian Revolution had. There was much death on both sides, which might have been avoided, though I do understand how negotiating with people you hate can be difficult. Additionally, our revolution did not have immediate effects on other slave colonies. Though slaves were free in Haiti, they were not free in America, for instance. Despite these failures, the equality, and the freedom, that we received from the Haitian Revolution was significant for us colored people.
ReplyDelete-Gen de Coleur/Nicola Lai
As a Gen de Coleur also known as a man of color who was known to be free in Saint Domingue, I had more rights and privileges than slaves. In fact, I used to own a couple slaves before the Haitian Revolution. Though we were more respected than the slaves, we didn't have all the rights as the Frenchmen. Many of us within this social class attempted to be accepted by them however we were always turned down. Eventually the Haitian Revolution came along where all the slaves revolted against all of their masters along with destroying all of the existing plantations. These slaves fought for equality and liberation because of their color. Our first reaction to this was to avoid participation of these rebel slave acts to avoid hurting our current status with the Frenchmen. It then took a while for us free men of color to realize that we weren't going to go any higher than our current social status and eventually all of us wanted equality and independence from those Frenchmen and so we went to go and fight alongside the slaves. Overall, the Haitian Revolution was a success as we the majority of the population of St. Domingue successfully declared our independence from France and were also given equality to all people. On the down side, for my social class, one major thing that was a setback was the destruction of our plantations as well as losing our slaves. These plantations helped with the economy of St. Domingue and because of the Haitian Revolution, our whole country will become poor. Though it sounds like we want slaves, in reality I don't because all I really want is to have a thriving economy where we all work on the plantations on our own desired time and the production of these cash crops will not be a primary focus of export rather than the use for our own.
ReplyDelete-Gen de Coleur/Raul Perez
Since I was a former slave, the Haitian Revolution has now made me a free man. This revolution ended with all men having equal rights and that abolished slavery. This made me free, to do what the other men do. Now, that I have equality I have lost all the stress and anxiety from my slave owners because I am now free. The Revolution demolished all the hardworking hours and all the bad things us slaves went through, we have finally been granted our freedom. Without this, I think I would be stuck a slave forever with no rights. Now as a free man, I have been granted to the same rights as the rest of the men. The fact that this made a life changing impact on so many people is amazing. The feeling of not being a slave and being free is something I hope to keep forever. The Haitian Revolution is something, I am greatly thankful for.
ReplyDelete- Former Slave / Myah Shaikh
DeleteAs a Grand Blanc, a part of the more wealthy, privileged class in San Domingue that owned the most slaves and plantations, I experienced a great life up until the Haitian Revolution. It is true that the slaves seem to have overthrown the whites and the colonizers, which is a major success on their part but a tragedy for my own. I experienced the slaves vicious ambition in overthrowing their owners with excessive violence. A major success that came from this Haitian revolution for them was that the slaves were able to become the independent colony of San Domingue, which was the first ever heard of in the world because it was run by slaves who had rebelled against their masters. The French Revolution influenced this rebellion by a lot, giving slaves much more radical thoughts. It eventually led them to rebel and in doing so, they abolished slavery in San Domingue. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have to flee this highly prosperous colony. I was once extremely comfortable here, commanding slaves to do as I told them to and purchasing luxury items that came from the ports, but now I am ruined with all of my slaves rebelling and all of my plantations burned to the ground. A major failure that I see of this Haitian revolution was that the French failed to reinstitute slavery. Napoleon sent a fleet to recapture the colony of San Domingue, but it failed horribly even though the slave leader, Toussaint Louverture, was captured and sent to prison. The slaves succeeded in repelling the French forces and maintain their independence which is a major failure for the French because the colony of San Domingue is worth a lot, with the most amount of sugar plantations that prosper in the region. I truly resent this rebellion with a burning passion.
ReplyDelete-Grand Blanc / William Jiang
I completely agree with you that the Haitian revolution has made life a little harder. I am not even in the colony of San Domingue and I have experienced negatives from the Revolution. The revolters are costing our great nation of France quite a lot of money, burning our plantations and all. We have a reputation to maintain and with all this chaos in our colony, it gets harder and harder. All of those slaves could be producing so much sugar and coffee, but instead they're attacking the wealthy people and burning all the perfectly good crops. I fully stand with you when you say you resent this rebellion. It has caused nothing but trouble for not only the colony of San Domingue but even all the way across the Atlantic in France.
Delete-Napoleon Bonaparte /Quint Wegner
I, Napoleon Bonaparte, the new ruler of France, have taken notice to the revolution taking place in Haiti. I notice this revolution has aided France as a nation, but has also hurt it. First off, the Haitian Revolution was a great benefit to France because the slaves helped me get rid of the Spanish and British trying to come into our Colony of Haiti. How nice of the rebels to get rid of the Spanish and British threat and not making me have to take care of it. Though the Haitian revolution helped rid us of our rivals trying to take my colony of San Domingue, they have brought some problems. The main problem they gave to me and the rest of France is that they caused the abolition of Slavery in French colonies. This is a huge problem because if we have no slaves, then our plantations cannot function, and if our plantations cannot function we will not maintain the status of the Sugar hub of the world. The Haitian revolution has cost us a lot of money that we could have if our plantations were functional. Not to mention hundred of them were burned. This, sadly, is not a positive thing for France's economy.
ReplyDelete-New Ruler of France, Napoleon/ Quint Wegner
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