A mass uprising began in northern Saint-Domingue during the night of 22–23 August. Enslaved Africans and their descendants attacked the plantation order. Their collective struggle transformed an imperial crisis into a revolution against slavery and eventually French colonial rule.
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The uprising placed enslaved people’s agency at the center of the struggle. Emancipation cannot be understood only as a decision by European lawmakers.
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