The Haitian Revolution

Hello class, today we are going to be researching the Haitian Revolution. The revolution had many effects that spanned all over the world. It is the only full scale slave uprising and stopped at nothing other than victory.The revolution turned the soon to be independent country's class order upside down. Haiti at the time Saint Domingue had many great leaders that had a very important part in the revolution. Leaders like Toussaint Louvetoure, Jean-Jacques Dessalines historians would argue that these two had the greatest impact on the Revolution. While you research you will see how the two have very different types of leading and tactics regarding the war.

Your task first is to choose either Jean-Jacques Dessalines or Toussaint Louvetoure to be your purpose of research. You will write a three page essay paper discussing these points.

If you choose Toussaint you must:  

- Discuss his routes and his early life.

- Discuss his relationship with Napoleon.

-  State your opinion on what happened with

   Toussaint getting on the French's warship.

- Conclude that if he was the leader through the whole

  revolution would it of been better or worse for Haiti?

-Talk about his negotiation and war tactics in general.

If you choose Dessalines you must:

- Discuss how he came to power.

- Discuss his War Tactics.

- Decide whether his tactics were necesssary at the

stage the revolution was in

- If he wasn't in power would Haiti of had better economic success?

-Was his Genocide of white people necessary?

Start by researching the Haitian Revolution, some helpful places to research would be

- Your Textbook

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_o-nU5s2U

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqh1h8SEcEc

-http://www.biography.com/people/jean-jacques-dessalines-9273005#emperor-of-haiti

Make sure you are taking notes (it will only benefit you more)

We will be using the standard essay grading format:

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What you should see through researching the Haitian Revolution, is that it is an incredible event. Not much attention goes into it, you may have known Toussaint but it doesn't go much farther than that. We see that the newly independent US had a direct effect on the newly freed Haiti, we see how the French Revolution was a major factor in the start of the Haitian Revolution. You should see that it wasn't just slaves getting lucky in a revolt, what started as a revolt turned into a full scale war. I wanted to do this as a way for you to see that this is a vey big piece of world history that goes overlooked.