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111,968
Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
Haitian Revolution
The most successful slave uprising in the Western Hemisphere was the Haitian Revolution, which began in 1791. Nana Dutty Boukman, an educated enslaved African from Jamaica who was sold to a French slave master in Haiti, organized and started the revolution that eventually led the French to ban slavery on the island. Later, military mastermind Nana Toussaint L’Ouverture led the revolution as the French tried to re-establish slavery. During the war, which culminated in the first independent black country in the hemisphere in 1804, 100,000 French soldiers were killed.
