The Haitian Revolution was the most important act of political liberation of the 18th century. It revealed the racist limits of both the US (1776) & the French (1789) Revolutions, & their constitutions.
Which explains why colonial powers, including the new United States, spent the last 230 years, doing everything they could to crush the new nation of formerly enslaved people.
St. Domingue was the *richest colony in the world* in 1791 when its enslaved peoples rose up to overthrow their captors
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