EVENT INFORMATION

22
Ougùstùs
1791

Mass uprising begins in Saint-Domingue

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📅 22 Ougùstùs 1791 📍

A broad uprising began in northern Saint-Domingue and developed into the Haitian Revolution. Enslaved people organized military resistance, destroyed plantation infrastructure, and demanded freedom in a colony whose wealth depended on their coerced labor. The revolt transformed Atlantic politics and made emancipation a consequence of enslaved people’s struggle, not simply a gift from European lawmakers.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Dutty Boukman

Cecile Fatiman

enslaved insurgents

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Enslaved insurgents

French colonial government