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4 unusual facts about Haitian Revolution


Duke of Marmalade

The name "Duke of Marmalade" is derived from a title created by Henri Christophe for a member of the new Haitian nobility following the Haitian Revolution.

Haitian Revolution

Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier's second novel, The Kingdom of this World (1949), (translated into English 1957), explores the Haitian Revolution in depth.

, a painting by January Suchodolski depicting a struggle between Polish troops in French service and the Haitian rebels

Year of tha Boomerang

"Tha sistas are in so check tha front line/It seems I spent the 80s in a Haiti state of mind"


Manumission

In the nineteenth century, slave revolts such as the Haitian Revolution and especially the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner increased slaveholder fears, and most southern states passed laws making manumission nearly impossible until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished slavery after the American Civil War in 1866.

Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite

One of the important battles of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was fought here at Crete Pierrot wherein Jean-Jacques Dessalines ravaged the French army led by Rochambeau.

Plantation economy

Indigofera was a major crop of cultivation during the colonial period, in Haiti until the slave rebellion against France that left them embargoed by Europe, Guatemala in the 18th century and India in the 19th and 20th centuries.


see also

Dutty Boukman

A fictionalized version of Boukman appears as the title character in American Communist writer Guy Endore's novel Babouk, a leftist and anti-capitalist parable about the Haitian Revolution.

The Black Jacobins

In 1934, James wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only successful slave revolt in history that was performed in 1936 at London's Westminster Theatre with Paul Robeson in the title role.