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If you want to know how Haiti was responsible for the beginning of slavery to end, watch this 12 minute video. Its the best Ive seen. Haitians defeated Napoleon Bonaparte and was SOLELY responsible for the part of America that was owned by France (Louisiana-Mississippi to the south all the way to Illinois-Michigan to the north). When France was defeated by native Haitians in 1803, Bonaparte was forced to sell French owned parts of the USA as the Louisiana Purchase. Since the 1500s, Haitians are: African slaves, white Frenchmen who worked as paid laborers and lived on the island, free Blacks who bought their freedom and rich French and Spanish people who ruled San Domingue (the capital of Haiti back then) from France and Spain. What actually defeated French soldiers in 1803 were the diseases French soldiers WERE NOT immune to. https://youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5A_o-nU5s2U
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:21:06 +0000

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