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Haitian Revolution

1791–1804 slave revolt in Hispanola

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was one of the only known slave rebellions in human history that led to the founding of a state which was both free from slavery and ruled by former captives.

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“Haitian Revolution” enters the record as 1791–1804 slave revolt in Hispanola. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haitian, Revolution and slave can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Haitian Revolution” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.