Assignment: Hatian Revolution

Using web pages provided, along with The Haitian Revolution video, provide an
overview and outline its effect on the Haitian Revolution on the chart. Cite the
Resource you use. ( APA)

Overview Effect Cite

The Enlightenment The Age of The Enlightenment UW-Madison

Enlightenment was an produced numerous
Libraries
intellectual and books, essays, inventions,
philosophical movement scientific discoveries,
that dominated the laws, wars and
world of ideas in Europe revolutions. The
American and French
during the 18th century.
Revolutions were directly
inspired by
Enlightenment ideals and
respectively marked the
peak of its influence and
the beginning of its
decline.

The French The French Revolution The French Revolution FIU Libraries
was a period of radical had a great and
Revolution
political and societal far-reaching impact that
change in France that probably transformed
began with the Estates the world more than any
General of 1789 and other revolution. Its
repercussions include
ended with the
lessening the importance
formation of the
of religion; rise of
French Consulate in Modern Nationalism;
November 1799 spread of Liberalism and
igniting the Age of
Revolutions.

St. Domingue Saint-Domingue was a The Saint-Domingue Oxford

French colony from revolution had a great Bibliographies
1659 to 1804 on the impact on Louisiana
Caribbean island of from the 1790s
Hispaniola; the island through the 1810s;
that now hosts two first and foremost
countries, the
was France's loss in
Dominican Republic and
its attempted
Haiti. The name was
also used, at times, for
re-conquest of the
the island of Hispaniola island during 1802 and
as a whole, all of it, 1803. ... The revolution
nominally, being at also had a great
times a French colony. impact on Louisiana's
slave and immigration
 policies.

grand blanc The grands blancs The most economically “A different route”
were the wealthy prominent citizens of the
white upper class of island were the grands
blancs, or great whites.
Saint-Domingue,
These were those who
including planters, had prospered
bureaucrats, and so on. economically in the
It was this group that colony. They were the
owned most owners of the
plantations and slaves plantations, the great
in the French colony. merchants, and the
wealthy agents of the
maritime bourgeoisie.

petit blanc The petits blancs, or Saint-Domingue's Webster

small whites, were those
free people of color,
who were largely
established in the Saint or gens de couleur
Domingue economic and libres, numbered more
social spheres for no than 28,000.
other reason than the
color of their skin. They
were the poor and
uneducated, and history
has referred to them as
the "white negroes" of
Saint Domingue.

Toussaint François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture Worldcat.org

L’Ouverture Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave
was a Haitian general revolt and
and the most prominent emancipated the
leader of the Haitian slaves in the French
Revolution. During his colony of
life, Louverture first
Saint-Domingue
fought against the
(Haiti). A formidable
French, then for them,
and then finally against
military leader, he
France again for the turned the colony into
cause of Haitian a country governed by
independence. former black slaves as
a nominal French
protectorate and
made himself ruler of
the entire island of
Hispaniola.

Declaration of the The Declaration of Freedom of speech and Worldcat.org

press were declared and
Rights of Man the Rights of Man arbitrary arrests outlawed.
and of the Citizen, The Declaration also
set by France's asserted the principles of
popular sovereignty, in
National Constituent contrast to the divine right
of kings that characterized
Assembly in 1789, is a the French monarchy, and
human civil rights social equality among
document from the citizens, eliminating the
special rights of the nobility
French Revolution. and clergy.