America and the Haiti Revolution

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The revolution in Haiti freed the country from French control and created the first Black republic after years of fighting, in 1804. Leslie Alexander tells Don how the revolution became possible and why it had such an impact on the United States - which doubled in size following the Louisiana Purchase from France when the revolution was almost won; and whose white population feared a similar uprising by its own enslaved black community.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time in medieval England, there was a young king who would do just about anything for his favorite night.
0:06.5	They were inseparable.
0:08.5	With love at the front of a king's mind, instead of war or ambition, you'd think the kingdom would be in for a golden
0:15.0	era of peace. But England is headed for the most catastrophic collapse seen for hundreds of
0:20.4	years. The saga continues, Join me Dan Jones on This is History, a Dynasty to
0:26.4	Die for. Available wherever you get your podcasts. August 21st, 1791.
0:35.0	1st, 1791.
0:41.0	Drums beat the haunting rhythms of a voodoo ceremony, resonating through the hot humid night of
0:46.4	Sandomang, the French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, what is today Haiti.
0:53.0	In a cave deep in the forest, participants enslaved Africans from nearby sugar plantations dance
0:58.8	and sing, some convulsing in euphoric spasm.
1:02.3	They wave fire torches and play instruments,
1:04.5	preparing a sacrifice, their ritualistic offering to the Loire.
1:09.2	This religious practice is the only possession
1:11.7	they were able to bring from their African homeland when they were forced to cross the Atlantic.
1:16.0	Now, years of cruel, brutal treatment by plantation owners have filled these people with unbridled anger and indignation.
1:24.0	They know they outnumber the white population on the island 10 to 1,
1:28.0	and it is time they act.
1:30.0	Tonight's ceremony is led by Duddy Bogman and is as much a religious right as it is a rallying point.
1:37.0	The next day they will head out and join an uprising that will eventually become the Haitian Revolution, a conflict that will
1:44.1	birth the world's first Black Republic and have huge consequences for the future of the United States. Greetings all.
2:02.5	all, thanks for joining the podcast.
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