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Hello, and thank you for joining the American Revolution.

This week, episode 374, the Haitian Revolution begins. The summer of 1791 saw the first colonial revolt inspired by the American Revolution. Slaves in the French colony of Haiti rose up and overthrew

their masters, demanding liberty and equality. This week, we look at the beginning of the Haitian Revolution and the American reaction.

I want to start by giving a little background.

Haiti was not really called Haiti at the time.

That was the name used by indigenous people before colonization.

The Spanish, under Christopher Columbus, arrived there in 1492 and named the island

Hispaniola, which essentially means Spanish island. A few years later, the Spanish created a settlement

called Santa Domingo. Although the Spanish claimed the entire island, they didn't really make much use of it,

and tended to populate mostly the eastern coast. More than a hundred years later, French pirates began using

the western coast of the island as a base of operations. Spanish officials pulled back

Spanish colonists to the east for their safety. this withdrawal essentially handed the western part of the

island to the French pirates in the early 1600s. Because the pirates who took over that region were

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