Ideas like liberty, freedom, and self-determination were hot stuff in the late 18th century, as evidenced by our recent revolutionary videos. Although freedom was breaking out all over, many of the societies that were touting these ideas relied on slave labor. Few places in the world relied so heavily on slave labor as Saint-Domingue, France’s most profitable colony. Slaves made up nearly 90% of Saint-Domingue’s population, and in 1789 they couldn’t help but hear about the revolution underway in France. All the talk of liberty, equality, and fraternity sounds pretty good to a person in bondage, and so the slaves rebelled. This led to not one but two revolutions, and ended up with France, the rebels, Britain, and Spain all fighting in the territory. Spoiler alert: the slaves won. So how did the slaves of what would become Haiti throw off the yoke of one of the world’s great empires? John Green tells how they did it, and what it has meant in Haiti and in the rest of the world.
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i love how the like to dislike ratio here is more negative then most of other John Green stuff, I guess people hate to see black people winning smfh
someone show this to Kanye West
crash course is sesame street for grown ups
Should have touched on the debt that France put on Haiti (as reparations for all slaves france lost) and how the us cooperated into making Haiti pay that debt
LYING ALBINOID!
What happened to post revolution Haiti is the same happening to post independence sub Saharan Africa in the form of negative media coverage and propaganda on the news everyday thus brainwashing blacks born in the West.
You could've left the silliness OUT !!!
Stan is number one!!
Grand blancs
Petit blancs
People of colour
Blacks
This is the order i learned in school. I live in the caribbean and my teacher said that the whites would never be lower than the people of colour
who else has a worksheet that follows with this video ??
This is soooo bad…. as person from the caribbean this is not good at alllll
Everyone's a slave critic
Cause I ain't going out without a fight
throughout history every colored society struggled when they allied with European colonizers instead of resolving matters themselves.
mood
my favorite part was 12:35
Can't believe the crazy amount of stupidity I just watched ?
Will is trash!!!!
I m so proud to be Haitian, they can bend us ,but they can never destroy us. .
Left out the part where the blacks killed all the whites on the island.
Nba Yb is insane
"I can't help myself, Napoleon, I like to see you suffer."
BDSM intensifies
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I was watching your video and I realize that you are making a disservice to the Haitian People by falsifying their Revolution. After scrutinizing all your expose, half of it is deadly wrong. The only party that has some truth in it or perhaps more or less valuable is from 8:00 to 12:00. It is a total disaster. You screw those guys deeply. I was shocked by your clip. Just in case that your mistake was not deliberated and driving by malicious intent. I will manage to post the exact fact with some references to help you guys out. Chances are that I was schooled in Haiti .– primary school, middle school, and High school. Therefore, I know their History, and I was able to pinpoint your mistake. I hope that you will make your excuses to make it clear for all your followers.
Napoleon was a nasty little pig. if he and the Haitians teamed up he would have had all europe to his mercy and blacks would have had some colonies in europe.
imagine being the most valuable colony of a country then end up as Haiti.
Forgot to mention how the Haitain Empire were ruled by a bunch of genocidal racists.
hi, can you please share the sources you got this information from?
YES NAPOLEON WAS BASTARD ,AND ABOUT SANTO DOMINGUE,IM FROM POLAND AND NAPOLEON HAVE PROBLEM WITH POLISH LEGIONARIES THEY WERE GOOD SOLDIERS BUT THEY PISSING OFF AUSTRIA RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA SO HE SEND THEM TO FIGHTING WITH SLAVES AND THEY WERE NOT HAPPY BECOUSE THAT ,MOST OF THEM DIES OFF ,THEY DONT WANNA BE THERE AND SOME EVEN DESERTED AND JOINED SLAVES AND LONG TIME THIS STATE HAVE LAV THAN EVERY POLE CAN BECOME CITIZEN OF SANT DOMINGUE ,STILL TO THIS DAY EXIST GROUP WITH POLISH ROOTS AND EVEN RELIGION VOODOO TAKED IMAGE OF POLISH BLACK MADONNA AS ONE OF THEIR GODESS
where my hatians at!
If Haiti did not stop France, then the US wouldn't have gotten the Louisiana terrority. So, the US would not have been the same or the big powerhouse it is today.
Why did he not mention the massacre in 1804 where all the French were murdered including women and children? What a mystery.
Some minor issues with the terminology. When he refers to the island it is a mistake because only 1/3 of the island was under French control which is the part that is currently named Haiti. So when he speaks of the slaves imported,the treatment ,the ratio of slaves to whites and the revolts it was all on the French part. The history on the other side of the island (Spanish side) was totally different.
Thank you infinitely for this episode. I’m a Haitian-American doing history homework with my son. There Is one full page devoted to the institution of slavery in the entire US history 1 textbook, and absolutely no mention of the Haitian Revolution or its role in significance within American history. So thank you for covering this and thank you for being willing to point out the inevitable correlation between Haiti’s current trials and it’s history of slavery and revolution.
3.20 Wow. That's new level of racism.
I feel so weird when he says "white people and people of colour". Seriously, what's wrong with the word "black"? I would even say it's less offensive than this weird counterpart
That’s a lot of facts
The crash course ignres (on purpose or not) the massacre Desalines ordered in 1805 when almost all white people (including women and children) were killed as a significant number of mullatos and even black people considered being sympathetic to the whites. This made the country far less governable as destroyed the huge majority clerks; the huge majority of the black people did not know reading and writing…
Haiti is example for kids who has terrible, abusive family and being bullied or attacking other people for its opportunity reason. Which is why I respected the Haitians, even the DR (Dominican republic) I wish both of these countries made there decisions and become comrades
There is 1 black woman in the bottom right corner of the "Allegory For The…" picture
do the Cuban revolutions
For anyone interested – the Revolutions podcast has awesome 30-episode series on the Haitian revolution. Absolutely recommend it if you want to learn more.
i have big respect for haiti
you kinda missed the part where the trading nations (Western) embargoed Haiti until they agreed to pay reparations to France for the loss of the colony. Driving them into poverty that still exists!
Liar wow!
Despite selling America Louisana, Neopolian was planning to steal it back later. What a MOF!
Haiti is poor today, because they revolted from France. France didn't want to pay reparations for what they did to the slave decendants. This ensured other Western European nations NOT to want to help them develop their economy.
You forgot this: "demanded that the newly formed country pay the French government and French slaveholders the modern equivalent of US$21 billion for the "theft" of the slaves" and this: "This independence debt was financed by French banks and the American Citibank, and finally paid off in 1947"
Shirt Brothers!
History is hard?