What were the causes of the revolution in Saint Domingue?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
The foundation for the Haitian Revolution lay in the racism and brutality of slavery and the plantation system. The number of African-born slaves, as opposed to those born in Haiti, was a significant factor as well. The event that triggered the revolution was the revolutionary turmoil in France. Wealthy planters, poor whites, and the gens de couleur sent representatives to Paris to argue their points of view in the new legislative bodies. As the struggle for control between those groups within Haiti intensified, violence broke out. Violence first divided gens de couleur and whites, and then a separate slave rebellion broke out in the north. Slaves gained strength when the radical National Convention in France outlawed slavery in 1793. The efforts of the plantocracy to continue slavery ensured that the general melee would turn into a struggle of slaves for their freedom.
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