The Aftermath of Independence (The Debt)
The long term effect of the French on Haiti's economy
What is crippling Haiti's economy for over a centuryl, preventing investments in infrastructure?
The wealthy free Black or mixed-race person in Saint-Domingue, also known as a Gens de Couleur.
Who is an Affranchi?
The control method that focuses on breaking an enslaved person's spirit, eliminating their culture, and reducing their sense of humanity.
What is Psychological Control?
The term for enslavement that is passed down through the mother and is determined solely by a person's race or ancestry.
What is Race-Based Chattel Slavery?
The famous Parisian building that Haiti's tax payments helped fund
What is the Eiffel Tower?
Name one questionable tactic/decision of Toussaint L'ouverture
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What is Scorched Earth/Guerrilla War?
What is child labor?
What is reinstating plantation work?
Brutally Killing dissenters (people who don't agree with him)
This type of control focuses on physically demanding labor, harsh work schedules, and corporal punishment like whipping.
What is Physical Control?
The biggest fear of Virginia's wealthy planters following Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. A series of Race-based laws were passed following the revolt.
What is a unified alliance between poor white and Black enslaved people?
The U.S., under Thomas Jefferson, joined this against Haiti in 1804 because it feared the successful slave revolt would inspire its own enslaved population.
What is an Embargo (or trade ban)?
The military leader who led the Haitian forces to final victory in 1803 and declared the nation's independence in 1804.
Who is Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
This type of enslaved labor was considered "dangerous" because of their frequent travel, which made it easier to run away or organize.
What is Skilled Labor?
Name one strategy American lawmakers used to separate races in Colonial America
What is physically separating races?
What is give poor white people more rights than Black people, creating a racial separation?
What is outlawing interracial marriage?
What is turning groups into overseers on the plantation?
The compensation France demanded Haiti pay in 1824, ostensibly for the "cost" of the formerly enslaved people who had freed themselves.
What is 150 million francs (or $30 billion in today's dollars)?
The trade policy that required Saint-Domingue to trade only with French ships from French ports.
What is "Le Exclusif"?
(or The exclusive)
Resistance that involved enslaved people destroying their enslavers' property or sabotaging crops and tools to slow down production.
What is Theft & Property Destruction?
The most common form of colonial labor until the 1700s, often involving poor European immigrants working for a set number of years.
What is an Indentured Servant?
The two dictators (father and son) who reigned over Haiti with brutality until the 1980s and stole government money.
Who are the Duvalier Family?
This Maroon leader is famous for leading the Bwa Kayiman Vodou ceremony that is considered by some as the official start of the massive slave revolt in 1791.
Who is Dutty Boukman?
A resistance strategy that involved building stable, loving relationships and families despite the constant threat of being separated and sold.
What is Maintaining the Family?
The year the first enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia colony.
What is 1619?
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What are 3 causes of the Haitian Revolution?
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Brutality of Slavery
Early Rebellions of Maroons
French Revolution
The Exclusive
France living far away from Haiti