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What we owe to Haiti: Indendence Day

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

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Haiti who is still the only nation on Earth created as a result of a successful slave revolt. Their victory in 1804 spelled the end of slavery because slave revolts began to happen constantly and the civil war was 60 years later.


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