During the night of 22–23 August 1791, enslaved people launched a coordinated uprising across the northern plain of Saint-Domingue. They attacked plantations, destroyed property tied to plantation slavery, and challenged a system that extracted labor through violence and denied people control over their lives. The revolt grew from collective action and networks among enslaved people; it cannot be reduced to a single leader or to an event initiated by metropolitan France.
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