BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : BLACK SLAVES AND THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION :

The Haitian Revolution (1791 - 1804 ) was slave revolt in the French Colony of Saint-Dominique which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the following of the Haitian Republic. The Haitian Republic. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. The revolution was one of the two successful attempts along with the American Revolution to achieve permanent independence from a European Colonial power for an American state before the 19th century. Further more it is generally considered the most successful slave rebellion ever to have occurred in the American and as a defining moment in the history of Africans in the New World.

Although an independent government was created in Haiti it society continued to be deeply affected by the patterns established by the French colonial rule. The French established a system of minority rule over the poor illiterate by using violence and threats. Because many planters have provided for there mix-race children by African women by giving them education and training into the French Military, the Mulatto descendant became the elite in Haiti after the revolution. By the time of the war, had used there social capital to acquire wealth and some already owned land and they identified with the French colonists than the slave and associated within there own circles.