Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, leading to the abolition of slavery in Haiti and the formation of Haiti as the first modern republic ruled by Africans. It was the biggest slave rebellion since the Zanj rebellion agains the Abbasid Caliphate in Iraq, which also lasted 14 years.^[1] Its leaders were former slaves who decided to fight for freedom, like Toussaint L'ouverture, Cécile Fatiman, Dutty Boukman, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The Haitian Revolution led to Haiti being the second nation in the Americas (after the United States of America) formed from a European colony, and the first one to ban slavery.^[2]

Commanders and leaders
1791–1793 Dutty Boukman †  Jean-François Papillon Georges Biassou Toussaint Louverture Vincent Ogé 1793–1798 Paul-Louis Dubuc Joaquín Moreno 1798–1801 Toussaint Louverture 1802–1804 Toussaint Louverture Jean-Jacques Dessalines Henri Christophe Alexandre Pétion François Capois John Duckworth John Loring	1791–1793 Viscount de Blanchelande   Léger-Félicité Sonthonax 1793–1798 Toussaint Louverture André Rigaud Alexandre Pétion 1798–1801 André Rigaud 1802–1804 Napoleon Bonaparte Charles Leclerc † Vicomte de Rochambeau Villaret de Joyeuse	Thomas Maitland

A drawing of a battle in the Haitian Revolution