The Haitian Revolution
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is There a Winner or Loser in War?
When we think of modern warfare, we tend to think in kind of falcnarian terms, that there aren't winners there's only losers in wars. I think during the age of revolutions, especially when you're talking about slavery, that that kind of modern understanding of the destruction of war doesn't really hold speaking of winners and losers. They defeat the french on the battlefield. They storm their fortresses, and hayte becomes independent. What that moment mean? It must have represented an existential threat to white imperialism in the atlantic world. People like to say it's the first black republic. But as chelsea stever, in her recent book on hades paper, reminds
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