Hello and welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks.

I'm Dan Cummins and today I'll be sharing the incredible inspiring story of the Haitian Revolution,

which happens to be the only truly successful large-scale slave revolt in the history of the entire damn world that led to a free nation.

And the largest slave uprisings in Spartacus

unsuccessful revolt against the Roman Republic nearly 1900 years earlier. And it's a damn shame that

most of us never learned about it in a high school history class. For over a dozen years,

hundreds of thousands of former slaves throughout Haiti fought and died to secure their freedom

and established their own nation, battling against the armies of Napoleon, Spain, even the British

Empire in the process. More British soldiers would die in the Haitian revolution than died

in the American Revolution. And just like with the American Revolutionary War,

the Haitians won.

Words and ideas can change the world. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream. I'll plead not guilty right now. Your only chance is to leave with us.

All right. Let's get to history.

So many French words incoming.

May God have mercy on my soul.

I'm going to do my best.

But a great story.

By 1791, the year that the Haitian revolution began,

the colony called Saint-Doming at the time was one of the most profitable stretches of land to ever exist.

The French had taken the western third of the island of Hispaniola from the Spanish Empire in the late 1600s, and in about 100 years, turned it into a cash machine that turned, essentially essentially kidnapped Africans into coffee and sugar money.

Might sound like a pretty fucked up way of describing it, but San Domang was a pretty fucked up place.

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