How Did Enslaved People Defeat Three European Armies in Saint-Domingue? - The Haitian Revolution and the Defeat of Napoleon's Army | Sleepy Facts About History

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Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In 1791, the enslaved people of Saint-Domingue faced a brutal plantation system designed to consume their lives within a decade. Yet within thirteen years, they managed to destroy that system, defeat the armies of France, Spain, and Britain, and found an independent state that forced the Atlantic world to confront the possibility that slavery was not permanent. This episode examines how the most profitable colony in the French empire became the site of the only successful large-scale slave revolt...