Hatian+Revolution

=HAITIAN REVOLUTION =

[|French Cruelties in St. Dominique] Mark-Up: Declaration of the Rights of Man The people of France, the National Assembly, believed that "the sole cause" of the negative and bad things things that were happening to them were due to the "ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man." Therefore, in order to insure stability, order, and "happiness to all," the National Assembly created the Declaration of the Rights of Man on August 26, 1789. It included 17 Articles which stated man's given natural rights.
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Thanks to the //Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen//, all men were allowed to vote. The French settlers didn't like that, and therefore Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt against the French. Emperor Napoleon disliked Toussaint's rising power, at the same time Toussaint was struggling. Toussaint was going to go to the agreement with Napoleon, but he broke the agreement and sent him to prison in France where he died in 1803. In 1804 revolutionaries of Saint Dominigue declared independence from France, and created the new nation Haiti.
 * Haitian Revolution Summary (pg. 298)**