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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Haiti, France, and Slavery

This is interesting - I didn't know any of this.
The 1791 Haitian Revolution secured black independence in the former French colony and sounded the death knell for the European slave trade. It also ensured the expansion of U.S. slavery.

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