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And here we go, original. Each week we decide who's to blame for historical tragedy,

and each week you tell us if we got it right. My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and this is

The Aftermath.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into this episode of The Aftermath. Today we're speaking with

guest expert Dr. Robert Fatton Jr. Robert is a professor in the Department of Politics at the

University of Virginia. He is the author of a large number of scholarly articles, as well as

several books, including The Guys of Exceptionalism, published just last year. He is the recipient of

the 2011 Award for Excellence of the Haitian Studies Association. Let's hear what he has to say

about the Haitian Revolution. Hi Robert, thank you so much for joining us today.

Well, glad to meet you and thank you for inviting me.

So we're trying to understand the events leading up to the revolt in Haiti.

So we'd like to go a little bit back. Columbus sets foot in 1492. He's panola is a Spanish colony

and then two centuries later the western third of the island becomes the French colony known as

St. Domain. Why do the Spanish seed the territory to the French? Well, there was an agreement between

the Spanish and the French and what is now Haiti, Sandoumank became part of the French Empire.

Now the Spanish got there as you said with Columbus in 1492 and immediately afterwards by the

early 1500 slavery was established on hispanula. First it was slavery with the indigenous people,

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