Practice question · True or false
Haiti is the only state in history created by a successful revolt of enslaved people.
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- Slave revolts elsewhere were suppressed or produced maroon communities, not recognised states.
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True
Why
True. Other risings were crushed or produced fugitive communities on the margins of colonies. Saint-Domingue is unique: an enslaved population defeated its owners, then the French expedition sent to re-enslave it, and declared an independent state on 1 January 1804.
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