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10 pages in length. Rebellion was part of the enslaved people's everyday lives in San Domingo. 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 became a near-impossibility, that is, until Toussaint L'Ouverture took the responsibility of leading the slaves to inevitable freedom by means of revolt. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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gain their freedom, a freedom that was unjustly oppressed by the white population. Yet so vigilantly controlled were the slaves that "rebellion became a near-impossibility" (Anonymous PG), 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. "If slave rebellions were not nearly so common as individual, day-to-day acts of resistance to slavery, they did keep alive the hope of
freedom and expressed in the most dramatic form the discontent that lay just beneath the apparently placid surface of southern slavery" (Anonymous PG). Saint Domingue was the worlds most profitable
piece of land in 1789. With two-thirds of the entire global sugar supply, it is not difficult to see why this was such a prized region. However, the
price that was paid in human suffering was not worth the privilege to the slave population. The exploding sugar market was also an integral component in the slave market,
inasmuch as it "also stimulated the greatest individual market for the slave trade" (James PG). Brutality was commonplace, and slaves died in great numbers because of such horrific treatment.
However, this did not serve to interrupt or deplete the slave trade, insofar as there was an infinite supply of blacks to transport to fill an empty place.
"What could these inland tribesmen do on the open sea, in a complicated sailing vessel? To brighten their spirits it became the custom to have them up on the
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