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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. -- Edwidge Danticat
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. -- Manisha Sinha
The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment. -- Laurent Dubois

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