5. What explains why Dessalines & Toussaint fought against the French as a slave rebel leaders in 1793, but then fought again against the French in 1802? 6. Why wasn't Toussaint able to celebrate the independence of Haiti?
5. What explains why Dessalines & Toussaint fought against the French as a slave rebel leaders in 1793, but then fought again against the French in 1802? 6. Why wasn't Toussaint able to celebrate the independence of Haiti?
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When in 1794, the revolutionary government in France abolished all slavery in the French colonies, Dessaline and Toussaint pledged allegiance to France. But then an unexpected change. Napoleon Bonaparte had risen to power in France and it was feared he was planning to reinstate slavery in Saint Domingue. Indeed in 1802, Napoleon Launched an invasion of 21,000 French troops. The leaders of Haiti put up an impressive fight but Toussaint was captured and taken to France. Surprisingly, at this point Napoleon pulled his suffering troops out of Saint Domingue, giving up the fight. Ironically, just as Saint Domingue was celebrating victory, Toussaint was dying from pneumonia in a French jail. He never knew that Saint Domingue, on the first of January 1804, would become an independent nation and be renamed Haiti.
Transcribed Image Text:5. What explains why Dessalines & Toussaint fought against the French
as a slave rebel leaders in 1793, but then fought again against the French
in 1802?
6. Why wasn't Toussaint able to celebrate the independence of Haiti?
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