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Laurent Dubois' book entitled Avengers of the New World: The story of Haitian Revolution captures what most other recollections of this event fail to fully embrace: the deeper meaning of revolution in the overall context of humanity's progress as a species. No additional sources cited.
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of this event fail to fully embrace: the deeper and truer meaning of revolution in the overall context of humanitys quest for progress as a species. With the onset
of the French Revolution came segregation at its worst, with the elites remaining royalist and the bourgeoisie embracing revolutionary ideals. It was at this very moment in history where
confusion reigned that slaves took this one-time opportunity to rebel, effectively commencing The Haitian Slave Revolt. Only decades later was it apparent that such tremendous bloodshed had warranted the
intended objective of freedom; Saint Domingue became Haiti in 1803, the first independent nation in the Caribbean. Doubois (2004) points out how rebellion
was part of the enslaved peoples everyday lives; not a day went by that they did not plan and scheme and devise ways to gain their freedom, a freedom that
was unjustly oppressed by the white population. Yet so vigilantly controlled were the slaves that rebellion all but impossible - that is, until Toussaint LOuverture took the responsibility of
leading the slaves to inevitable freedom by means of revolt. As a semi-literate individual, LOuverture was better equipped - intellectually if not other ways, as well - to lead
a rebellion due to his ability to read, write and obtain a superior understanding of the world beyond him, as opposed to the simplistic population of the field hands.
However, there was an undercurrent of distrust against which he constantly had to struggle. "Even if it was a simplification of the situation, the accusation that Louverture was an
enemy of the colored community was a dangerous one, and he actively sought to dispel it" (Dubois, 2004, p. 202). Revolutions -
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