Can't get enough of the Haitian revolution. Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast does a great job of going through every little detail of it, for those who are interested.

I never realized how little we actually know about Toussaint Louverture.

Between 1910 and 1997, African Americans lost about 90% of their farmland. One of the main causes of this property loss is heirs’ property, where descendants of land owners inherit land from their family, but have no will or legal documentation that proves their land ownership.

Every Haitian blood person I know in the US is really kind and good hearted, optimistic and hard working person. From my two surgeon friends to my landscaper friend. As a 'white' American I really respect our Haitian brothers, 1804! A strong people who suffer too much and perservere. I really wish we would embrace Haiti, so abused by France and the US over the centuries as punishment for the successful uprising of slaves 219 years ago. I pray for Haiti's better future. Strong children of Mother Africa that refuse to stay down. 🇭🇹🙏🏻💪🏼💪🏾🌍

We're up for the long version. This history needs to be appreciated in it's full expression. The greatest story of revolution in all of mankind

It is a breathe of fresh air to listen to your analysis of the Haitian Revolution especially from someone like you. As a Haitian American, I really appreciate your passion for Haiti.

🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 Haiti deserves immense respect.

Congratulations on a good job. I am Guyanese - English speaking Caribbean. I can tell you that no conscious Caribbean citizen has anything but the highese respect for the Haitian Revolution. It was the greatest revolution in this hemisphere including the American revolution. You say the revolution was unthinkable to the French whites. You neglected to mention that it was not unthinkable to the Abbe Reynal whose work got into the hands of Toussaint. Nor was it unthinkable to the legendary abolitionists including those in Britain and the US. It was probably not to William Wordsworth who wrote a sonnet to Toussaint. Haiti is reeling from the cowardly historical tag team blows from France and the US. BUt they should understand that no matter what the economic state of Haiti, Revolutionary Haiti will live in the minds of every conscious person with the slightest of African blood.

Not only did France say Haití owed them reparations, the USA and rest of the world agreed, and the country has been in perpetual dept since. Not to mention the dictadors installed by the USA. The country has been effed over by the world like few counties have.

Served in Haiti as a Marine during Op. Secure Tomorrow in 2004 which happened to be their bicentennial. Though the capital Port au Prince is ravaged with poverty, the countryside is stunningly beautiful!!! The people there are just as beautiful and I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for Haiti and it’s people.

Once I read Toussaint L'Ouverture was son of Gaou Guinou, the king of Allada who was conquer by Dahomey and selled to slavery on Americas. There is a statue of Toussaint L'Ouverture in Allada to promote this version of History.

The Haitian revolution was not unknown in the time it happened. The slave owning south was obsessed with it.

He is correct. I have respect for Haiti. You can’t listen to the stupid shit the politicians here or there say. People are people and all have issues. You have to study the history

It was just a simple reel of Someone wondering why we don’t learn about the Haitian revolution , this is the 5th or 6th video I’ve seen about it and I think im starting to become obsessed about this topic…

Despite it's "Marxist" bent "The Black Jacobin" by C.L.R. James is a great read for anyone seeking an indepth expose on the Revolution. James extensively researched the subject, digging up records and archives from France, UK, US and other sources and cites his sources extensively. He goes deep into the political, historical, cultural and economic issues in Europe, France, US and the Americas and Saint Domingue before, during and after the Revolution. Highly recommended

Thanks for having a passion for Haiti ❤ me too

Dude. This was absolutely incredible. Incidentally, my boyfriend is Haitian and I am on a quest to learn as much as I can about the culture. This was super helpful.

Absolutely love your presentation, information, passion, and professionalism. So much regarding Haiti and Black History has been deliberately concealed and we both know exactly why. Shalom Shalom.

Bro, thank you for this video🙏🏽 Great work!

That was an outstanding presentation, very enlightening. Thank you so much for the information.

Your videos sparked my interests in history and made me read Orwells Homage to Catalonia. Keep the videos coming!!

The greatest revolution ever told. Haitian revolution change the world. Great video.

7 yrs of thought went into this video and it shows.

This guy did an honest & refreshing reflection of the histories of the Haitian & American Revolutions.

I enjoyed this history lesson and crave more honestly, also surprised the views aren't 100 times larger. I'd like to contribute my views as regards an aspect of the Haitian revolution you alluded to, but didn't explore sufficiently in my view. I am a Jamaican who honors and has GREAT respect for the Haitian people, because of one simple fact. My only access to the history of Haiti and the larger Caribbean, was acquired at high school, but it is very clear to me that Haiti's revolution directly contributed to the emancipation of all my enslaved ancestors in the Americas. Enslavement of Africans provided HUGE fortunes for the enslaver, and it was never going to be in their interest to ever end the barbaric and Satanic practice, and this is supported by the fact that ALL the governments of the offending nations, were required to pay large sums as restitution to the slave owners at the time of emancipation. It is very clear to me that said governments, understood the implication of the Haitian revolution, and you mentioned this as a fear of this uprising being exported from Haiti to their shores. Emancipation of suffering Africans was NEVER about conscience or pressure from any church, it was ENTIRELY about fear of what would inevitably spread throughout the Americas with similar consequences as in Haiti. My conclusion? Haiti DIRECTLY contributed to the emancipation of all Africans in the Americas. For that I will always love the Haitian people.

Big up to all of the Zoes. All praises to those who sacrificed to prove that freedom is obtainable.

What an amazing video - I was shocked at how few views it's getting - you're just one hit video away from a lot of growth imo

Thank you, that was a super good piece of work!!! From DC, a 65 year old African English man living in the UK

Thank you so much for your intellectual honesty and impartiality.

Fabulous video. Great work

Excellent video!! Thank you brother!

This is the best video I've seen yet.. Great job

AWSOME video, it allowed me to look at the Haitian revolution from a whole other perspective.

You’ve got such a wonderful and calming voice.

I didn't know about this revolution until i listened to season 4 of Revolutions. That series blew my mind. Thank you for this video!

Thank u so much for bringing this to light 🇭🇹La Fai La Force

This was passionate, enlightening. A true crasp of history. No more to say good day.

Glad to see your making videos again, I have been missing your content! Keep up the good work :)

This video was amazing

Interesting Haiti facts: 1. Toussaint L'Ouverture held the rank of General in 3 armies. Firstly, in the early phase of the revolution he served as a General along with 2 other black Generals from Haiti in Santo Domingo, the Spanish part of the island, fighting for the Spanish Army against the British and French. Secondly, after France abolished slavery he returned to Haiti and was given the rank of General in Chief in the French Revolutionary Army. During this time he successfully defeated British and Spanish attempts to seize the colony, proclaimed himself Governor General and captured Santo Domingo for the French (latter two actions angered Napoleon). Thirdly, after Napoleon reinstated slavery Toussaint led the rebel army aka Armee Indiginee as it's General. 2. A black Polish General Wladislaw Jablonowski who was a Brigadier General in charge of the Polish Legions that fought for the French Army was sent with the Polish Legions to suppress the revolution in Haiti. He died of yellow fever shortly after arrival. Of the 5200 Polish Legionnaires sent to Haiti 3000+ died of yellow fever and diseases and combat, around 1000 returned to France or went to other colonies in the Americas and around 500 of the remainder deserted and joined the slave rebellion. After Haiti became independent they and their descendants were granted Haitian citizenship. 3. A leader of the revolt and a future Haitian head of state Henri Christophe, as a boy served as a drummer boy in a unit of free black Haitians Les Chaussers Volontaires in the French Army that fought on the American side in the Siege of Savannah Georgia during the American Revolution. A monument to that unit is in Savannah. 4. Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pallietere aka Thomas Alexandre Dumas was born in Haiti to a French Aristocrat planter and his slave mistress. His father took him to France and gave him an upper class upbringing and education. He joined the French Army as a private, rose to Colonel and second in command in Europe's first all black regiment the Legion St Georges aka Black Legion aka Americas Legion made up of free blacks from French colonies. He was later promoted to General in Chief and led the Army of the Pyrenees and Swiss Army of the Alps, commanding 50,000+ European troops. He later led the cavalry during Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition. His son was French author Alexandre Dumas who wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count Of Monte Cristo. 5. Independent Haiti played a vital role in the South American wars of independence that liberated what is now Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela from Spanish rule. Anti colonial Republicans were given refuge in the country and on two occasions after military setbacks the leader of the Revolution Simon Bolivar was given shelter and protection in Haiti. Haitian president Alexandre Petion gave Bolivar gold, a couple thousand rifles, supplies, printing presses, ships and sailors and armed experienced Haitian soldiers, as well as trained Bolivar's forces in standard and guerilla tactics, on the agreement that Bolivar would emancipate slaves in whichever territories he liberated. 6. When Napoleon came to power he dreamt of an Empire on the North American mainland. He envisioned settling the Louisiana Territory and expanding it westwards. He hoped to use Saint Domingue as a naval base and a resupply point and as a source of operational funds. His vision was a triangular trade with Louisiana, St Domingue and the Caribbean colonies and France as the three points. He at one point considered that after putting down the slave revolt in the colony he would use Toussaint L'Ouverture and his battle experienced black troops as part of his military force in North America together with 20,000 North American Native warriors he had secured an alliance with and had armed and ready. The loss of the rich colony and this his intended source of funds and supplies and black troops and a naval base put an end to his dream and led to him selling off the Territory. 7. The colony of Saint Domingue was France's richest colony at the time. It was the world's largest single producer of sugar and coffee, producing around 50% of Europe's supply of each, as well as a major producer of cotton and indigo. Saint Domingue alone out-produced the entirety of Spanish colonial possession in the Americas.

Very interesting, Sir. In addition to the sources you mention there is the wonderful trilogy by Madison Smartt Bell: All Souls' Rising, The Master of the Crossroads and The Stone That The Builder Refused. The Haitian Revolution also influenced in America., the revolutionary activity of Denmark Vesey (1822) Nat Turner (1831) and John Brown's attack on Harper's Ferry (1859). In acknowledgement, the Haitians held a memorial service for Brown in Port-au-Prince in December 1859. The Revolution also influenced the enslaved population in nearby Jamaica and in 1831 broke out "The Baptist War" led by Samuel Sharpe, a Baptist lay preacher. That war did enough damage to persuade the Brits to end slavery in the Caribbean in 1834 before the enslaved could rise again and take their freedom. Haiti influenced the struggle of Simon Bolivar against the Spanish overlords in the Andean nations of South America, by giving the liberator money and materiel and sending him 12,000 fighters. I am about to publish a five-act play, Toussaint and Other Heroes of Haiti's Revolution, which should some day be made into an Oscar-winning movie. In it there is some emphasis on Toussaint not simply as the warrior, but as the statesman who persuaded U.S. President, John Adams to resume trade relations, who negotiated the withdrawal of the invading British forces, who welcomed French planters who had fled the revolution, to return and restart the cultivations, and who helped create new constitution which he said was the most advanced in the world because it gave women equal rights to the men.

This was an outstanding piece of work, deserving of a part 2 (where you left off to now). Thank You! 😊

Thanks for this video, I've been going down the Haiti rabbit hole (mainly, why Haiti is so poor) and had no idea how deep the hole went. Haitians won their physical freedom, but endured a further 120 years of financial enslavement.

Thank you. This was beautifully put together

What a brilliant take!!!!

This video is great! I’m a history student at university and I love the level of depth of your investigation and the questions you brought up. easily one of the best analysis I’ve seen on youtube. keep it up!

Glad to learn everything is working out well for the Haitian peoples.

I enjoyed the explanation. 7 years, well worth the wait. Good stuff Im subbed up.

What is most incredible is how both Toussaint and Dessalines were able to have incredible military expertise without any formal training. To beat the Spanish, British and French armies is an incredible accomplishment with only an army of ramshackle slaves is so underappeciated in history.

this is a great video

Really good stuff!! Greetings from Chile

Light will shine on us again.. l’union fait la force

Thank you for letting the Wirld know about Haitian Revolution . The most Spectacular Revolution in the World . The USA , Should thanks Haiti , helping them Fight in Savannah Georgia , Whitout Haiti , USA will not have Louisiana .

This amazing work your passion is infectious

I love this. The more I learn about Haiti, the more my respect for the people of Haiti grows.

Thanks for this! I loved it. My intro to history professor used silencing the past throughout the entire semester. Most people stopped showing up, dropped the class, or didn’t do the reading at all. I showed up every. single. day. But I was horrible at writing those 10 page papers. I turned in 5 pages for my final paper and she gave me an A+ in the class. For that I never stopped investigating history!!

Great job brother

Good unbiased and passionate presentation. Good work 👏

Haiti broke the back of slavery,and for that we shall always be grateful to them! At least I know I am and can't wait for the world to realize the true beauty of Haiti and the people. We don't like injustice period!.

I live in Les Cayes, Haiti where I have been teaching for 10 years--good job on the video and the history.

Great video!

Thank you guys for telling the world the history of the great and amazing Haiti this history of San Doming brings bit of comfort for the soul. Since the slave were àlmost always on the loosing end

I hope this comments makes it through. I'm not surprised about the racial hierarchies in Haiti. The Spanish, Portuguese and French left us with racial hierarchies that we are still dealing with to this day. Unlike in the US racial policies were passed in order to whiten the population in the hopes of erasing any ties to Black and Indigenous communities and appropriate their customs and culture for the sake of homogenizing our experiences for the sake of unity under our respective national identities. There is a fantastic online class that breaks this down. It's taught by Dash Harris and Javier Williams called the Black Latin American History class. They teach seasonally and are currently accepting clases. I hope you check it out.

This is very insightful.

Thank you for your interest in our beautiful and heroic history as a nation. I appreciate your brillant and succinct exposé. It will take a collective knowledge of the facts for the world to stop stigmatizing Haiti and its citizens. Much Respect 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you for this

Very insightful. Many thanks.

A rapper named Mach hommy brought me here! His music is full of references to the Haitian revolution and Haitian culture And this and other documentaries have helped me understand it better! Thanks !

Props!

Love your content and history. Only critique: the glitch transitions are a lot. Wouldn’t mind keeping them simple or without a transition. Content is 10/10 though. Keep it up!

This had me in tears.

We as black people need to write our own history most of our history come orally but we need to write them down because we have a lot to learn about herself because the white man writes their own history and they put themselves on top but we as a black nation you can learn our history and get strong

I met some Haitians in one of the self-growth programs of LandMark. That day, seeing their positivity, I could hear my INNER VOICE , Haiti Calling for Healing Let me know if someone here is equally interested in Haiti;s Healing

It is pretty unfortunate how the 1804 Haitian massacre resulted in women getting raped and children getting killed, which I have no doubt sent shockwaves that resulted in further hesitation to liberate slaves by the time of the civil war.

Jean jack Dessalines , reincarnated Osiris , Heru the light and the savior who have ended the power of white supremacy over the world , his name is barely mentioned and he’s the a father of our nation .

God Bless Haiti and Haitian . The Rebellion , The Fighter . Proud of Haitian Revolution . The most Specular Revolution in the World . The imperialism and the Slaves master , will never Forget .

Your courage is both intimidating and admirable. Hopefully, infectious. Soldier on.

Great video as always. I did a deep dive on the Haitian revolution myself. If I may share some other interesting facts: -During the window of peace under Toussiant's rule, he purchased a large amount of guns from the US government (Adams administration). Part of the deal was that Toussiant would deny safe harbor for pirates. - Toussiant conquered the Spanish speaking side of Hispaniola. They were treated quite poorly. To this day, the Dominican Republic celebrates it's independence from Haiti. There is still bitterness towards Haitians today (although other post revolution events also contribute to this) - Animosity between the blacks and free people of color continued after the revolution. At one point, the free POC formed their own country. Tensions between the groups continue to this day. Americans struggle to understand this because they think every culture has the same concept of race as they do. - Rochambeau, a French general in Haiti, was a truly evil man. He did things more wicked than what you'd see in the Roman colosseum. You can look up what he did, but you have been warned. - Desaline went genocidal on the French speaking whites after he rose to power. It didn't matter if they were abolitionist or not. If you were white and spoke French, you died. (Some women were spared if they agreed to marry a solider aka sexual assault.) Some accounts say he forced/tricked the free people of color into participating in the genocide. Anyways, I could go on and on. Hispaniola is full of fascinating and tragic history. ¡Viva la Republica Dominicana!

Interesting. I'm literally related to a former Haitian president Manigat. Plus Francios Manigat part of the revolutionary War Cap- Haitian where we're from, that's where the revolutionary War occurred. Nickname is Manigat city.

Great work Sir!🤝🏼👍🙏 You need to elaborate on more specific details... Keeping on digging deeper on degree of cruelty and exploitation by the GRANDS BLANCS.... Give us numbers figures...

Thanks ❤❤❤

Haiti will stand of he's feet again, Viv haiti justice for the people, one day one day.

Haiti's revolution is even MORE insanely interesting than what you say when you introduce the intricacies of la Terreur between 1792/93 and the fall of Robespierre the 28th of July 1794. The character of Robespierre is so controversial and I view him as a John Brown 65 years ahead of its time. He coined the term of his own policy, "terrorism", and proudly self-referred as a terrorist in the sense that it was acceptable to execute people not because they committed a crime, but to inflict fear so big (terror) that other criminals would stop committing their crime. It happened that it is the only way to deal with slave owners. Slave owners were committing terrorism everyday to their slaves according to this definition and were backed up legally by the Code Noir. Really, if Robespierre was among the founding fathers of the USA, he would have to stand to his principle and guillotine Washington, Jefferson and so on. The first law to abolish slavery ever made in the world was thanks to him and his principles that are no compensation and terrorism if necessary. Of course, it created a power vacuum that the British were quick to seize. The abolition of slavery by the Brits, 40-50 years later was in contrast to the French : full compensation for ex-slave owners and reconversion help to prop up the industrial revolution without changing their mentality.

i learned about haiti in my school growing up. it's not systematically not being shown.

What's the piano piece playing at 18:00?

Ay yi ti is Taino for High mountains, thats how the name came up

Thank you, I will subscribe to your channel now.

Hmmm! Yes. My interest is peaked. This reminds me of my history teacher in college. To graduate from college in Texas, one has to take 6hrs of credit in America history. The professor rattled just like this guy. He is so enthused about the story. But if my memory serves me right, not too much time was spent on slavery as that would have forced the professor to delve into the Haitian revolution. Those professors were not interested to give kudos to Haitian force for being able throw the French people out of their territory. If only, black people can come together, there is no mountain, we as a group won't be able to climb. If we can use the same cooperation as these Haitians did, the African Unity we have worked on for six decades could have been realized. Yes, the external tactics are different, but we must realize that all new tricks would be put in our way to derail us. All we have to do is to stay focus & keep pushing the rod. We can do it, people.

thank you sir

Not bad analysis however you forgot to mention the Marroons of Haiti who also had a significant impact on the start of the Haitian Revolution.

I'm happy 😁 that I watched this video I learned about Hiati 🤔.

Wait John Adams was president from 1797 to 1801 .

Your channel is the only one i found calling it a Revolution and not a massacare. (Great reporting.)

I'm new to this channel, but do I understand it correctly that Penn Jilette switched careers to doing history youtube videos, after ingesting a youth serum?

I suggest you to read forgotten essentials by Herve Lemoine to learn more about Toussaint.

The time to put your research now as Haiti is trending

Your french pronunciations are great!

The greatest revolution ever

interesting lecture

And I wonder why the videos about the haitian revolution dont get as much views as the poverty porn videos about Haiti