Haitian Revolutions: Crash Course World History #30 

I find that part to be quite the romance... They didnt "stand up for the weak", not even for an idea, they stood up to free themselves! Which is absolutely righteous, it goes without saying, They were basically all slaves, and the motivation behind the uprising was to be free. If 90% of them were free men, and 10% were slaves, I bet my ass that there would not have been any revolution at all.

Tell that to Jean-Pierre Boyer in 1822 xD

@Vlad the guru haitians didn't do anything for the slaves Bahamas and Jamaica.

I got chills

@Stanley Dougé yes tell us dominicans how they stood for us when they killed our women and children during the Moca Massacre or the 22 year occupation of DR where dominicans were treated worse than slaves.

Even in other french island in Caribbean who share a part of this history before 1804 clearly discriminate a lot Haitians like dogs Martinique Guadeloupe St Martin 😤

Thank you for teaching truth

I am Haitian living in Brazil, I think you should read the black Jacobins you'll learn a little bit more about the Haitian revolution.

Much respect ✊🏾

@@247gaminghotline , not just Florida, New York too.

oohhh man

Teacher sent me here for a HiStOrY aSsiGnMeNt lmao

Yes indeed yes!

Jess JayEel Forgive my ignorance. I have never paid attention to that part of the world but ever since I have watched that video and read your words, Haiti's love has ingrained deep down in my heart

Jess JayEel ( I know this post is from a while ago) But did you mean the first free Black Nation in the Americas, because the scramble for Africa didn't even happen by the time Haiti became an independent country and there were dozens of nations spread throughout the African continent during the Revolution.

+Jess JayEel no. you don't see Africa. from An African.

+Jonathon von Tischner Religion in Haiti includes both West African Voodoo and Christianity. The traditionalists have no problem with the two coexisting, while the Christians have frequently tried to suppress the other side as "Book" religions often will. As the likes of Anders Breivik or David Gunn should remind you, Christians can be pretty darn dangerous.

Brittany Louime That’s because they kept bringing more and more of you in.

@Blue Lava a person form Haiti ?

oh

But...youguys got screwed after the revolution economically and socially...i rather be a gullah geechee since they actually thrived untouched for the most part.

Biomorph shut up

Hell it is.

It was stupid

how

John Green says "Haiti stood up for the weak when the world failed too" so was all the murdering of women and children during the 1804 "standing up for the weak"?

The French were the ones murdering women and children. 8:57

It’s great you’ve taken an interest in Haiti’s history. Hopefully you’ve come across reputable sources. This young man didn’t fully describe the true revolution of Haiti, you’ll have to do a bit more research for that. As to why is Haiti so poor, it is because since the revolution ‘till now the French and the American governments have saddled Haiti with debts, imposed sanctions and embargo on the country; they’ve meddled in Haiti’s elections, putting into power those who agree to do the French and American governments’ biddings, those governments are behind a lot of coup d’etat that’s occurred in Haiti and assisted in the deaths of many political leaders who wanted good for the Haitian people. Please do the research, the information is out there, we just gotta do some work to get to it.

i want that too

Danny Glover has been trying for years and can't get funding :(

More easely than that would be see ExtraCredits making a video about L'Overture, it would be amazing.

Burn! With Marlon brando is a great film.

A guy named Tariq Nasheed is doing a film

Lionel Tapsoba well technically something like 140 years or so because it continued to 1947 with having to pay both the French and the US.

Lionel Tapsoba What really impoverished HAITI to this very day is the MAJOR countries ignoring and punishing HAITI for revolting. I say Make HAITI GREAT!! We can to it. Make it our vacation and retirement Mecca!!

donttrytokillme1231 - STFU-pig skin.

donttrytokillme1231 why is that?

Haiti shouldn't have gave the French a dime 😭

God hates Haiti.

François Royal you so silly. there is no God

God doesn't hate anyone. Of course you would say that. Your dislike of haiti, you are vaguely saying god hates haiti due to your dislike of Haiti. Example, if you disliked asians, you would say god hates china. You are making vague points that don't make sense. You can't state things like this.

I see what you mean. But there are other countries with bad history as well. Others would be included. But you do have a point. My country does have a history but others have a bad history also.

More like the west and European countries hate Haiti. It isn't mentioned all the Western powers refused to recognize and trade with Haiti. France actually returned with a better equipped army years later and demanded it be payed 150 million francs for all the slaves and territory it lost, of course Haitians refused, but eventually without help from anyone they had to succumb to France's demands. This cost Haiti schools and other things that would help its infrastructure. Later, in 1914 the U.S. actually invaded as well and took all of it's gold and ever since then it has basically picked all of Haiti's rulers. Don't believe me, just look it up. There's a lot of things people don't know and the truth is sick.

I honestly thought he was going to say 2. genocide of white French people for a second.

@@mankytoes why tho wtf

I thought he was gonna say 2. getting more rights for women.

@@weegeearmy1391 He is a white nationalist missing black slavery.

@@mankytoes You can't genocide French people outside of France. Hilter and Rawanda tried to commit genocide.

Naŋ Ĭļĕÿ no u

umidontno040394 It does not take an in depth detailed explanation to at least mention the 1804 genocide.

François Royal but, it might to get a good picture of it.and a viewer might get the wrong impression or something. idk. just saying its hard to squeeze everything about a big historical event into a 10 minute video. he's missed tons of other things on other videos as well. but, it is an introduction to the subject, so that is fine. if it were more in depth, than yes. it should be mentioned.

umidontno040394 The fact that he didn't put it in the video is insulting.

François Royal i dont think he meant to insult anyone. just to give an intro to the subject. i knew almost nothing about Haitian History before i watched this so i learned stuff. I then did more of my own research so yeah. if this was a more in depth video like maybe 30 minutes. then yeah, it would be insulting not to mention it.

François Royal alright be all angry about it if you want.

Newton_SE +1

It's the very first time I hear a Dominican even acknowlegding "africa" ...

I admire it too, except for when they attacked the Dominicans about 35 years later

@@mandiwifeyTrust me most dominicans are very aware of our african ancestry. But also of our taino and european ancestry; that´s what most people saying "dominicans deny they are black" don´t understand.

@Saeed B. So I must hate one part of my ancestry and totally ignore it? I have african, european and taino ancestry, and I´m really proud of it. I won´t tell you there wasn´t slavery, or that the Spanish did horrible things to the natives, but the mixing here happened very diferent here, and ended up with a very homogeneous population. There are a few books I can recomend you if you want to understand it better

Lmao, you're proud? 70% of your country lives in poverty, half of kids don't go to school, and the average life expectancy is 65 years old

So???? I'm Dominican and I would be proud as well. Your country is your country, no matter what the circumstances are. Him saying he's proud is him saying that he actually CARES for what happens to his country, and that is nothing but admirable.

Michael Dante stfu

The wise Indian Hell Yeah :D

The Wise Crusader Not me.

Wow how old were you when he said this? That was incorrect and unprofessional for a teacher to say.

Do you live in France?

dubreil07 It was either freshman or sophomore year of high school so...14 or 15? And I mean this guy also replied "What?" in class whenever someone said "Oh my God" or anything like that. He had an odd sense of humor, but really not a bad guy. And Ali Raza no, at the time I lived in Virginia. Why do you ask?

JazzyNym Since the French were the ones at the wrong end of the Haitian revolution, I thought your teacher was probably French.

French don't care about Haiti, merely heard of it. It's just a former colony like there are dozens other

Jason Tanujaya Nice try. :)

Jason Tanujaya :)

+Xzodia Yin Zero Thanks Haitian people for contributing to the foundation of my home state, Missouri. Wooo! EDIT: To clarify, because the Haitian revolution is why the Louisiana Purchase occurred, which is what the State of Missouri formed from.

Erik Nielsen lol

+Erik Nielsen true

mshara1 GREAT POINT

And most Constitutional Conservatives today were not around in 1947. Slavery of any race is a horrible institution, bottom line. It still goes on in Asia and the Middle East however, even if it's more of an underground business now.

Tj N it's still prevalent in Africa to bruh. 😔

how arent they? or the people they taught and influenced still around? lmaoooo delusional

Tj N you forget to mention AFRICA it wasn't just Europeans who enslaved Africans it was Arabs and Asians.....africans didn't enslave others....

That they fight for freedom but do nothing with it...

alejandromolinac you need to do some research

What, founding a nation that is currently a shithole run by corrupt people who know nothing about economics or safety?

+Abaip noooooo omg

There is no excuse for such genocidal acts.

François Royal i can tell you hate haiti

Nkosi Carter-Fisher With good reasoning.

which is?

They're only downing Haiti because most of the population is black.

I love you!

+Polandball Historian. You forgot France.

the first modern nation state to be governed by people of african decent? That does sound fucking important..

aotero u Thank you for that little detail! I'm going to research that right now!! :-)

aotero u thank you very much.

Vjorp not true brother it is known that when napoleon soldiers arrived in Haiti and realize that they alone defeated the French in other part of the country some of them decided to join the slave to fight against the French there is a similar story in Europe where the one side admire their enemy tactics and chose to join them. They were coming to reestablish slaveravery in the island

What you are wrong about is one thing though. Poles were unwilling to go to Haiti, they wanted to fight Germans and Russians and free their homeland. Not to mention that unlike other parts of europe slavery was considered barbaric and inhuman in Poland. 1. Because Poles and other slavs were once wery often sold as slaves. 2. Poles were very believing catholics and the catholic church condemned slavery. (yes they actually did) 3. At the time Poland was occupied by foreign forces, they they had a very big sentiment towards other opressed groups. You might now know bu Poles were very desperate at the time. Desperate to the point that Polish fighters and Generals participated in random revolutions around europe in hopes that if the revolution succeeds they will get help from that nation. A Polish General known for hatinf communism fighting on the side of the French commune said: "Wherever there is an opressed group and a stroger opressor. it is part of being Polish that you fight for the opressed." Of course that was a very flawed way of thinking. There were cases where when an uprising started, people who did not want it joined in. because it felt "unpolish" to not join the uprising. In the end I think it was more of a moral thing. The people of Haiti were in the same situation of the Polish soldiers; the Polish soldiers instead of saving their ocuntry were sent to opress another, making them the agressors and occupants which wen't against the philosyphy they were raised in. Telling a Pole to stop an uprising of people against their overlord is like telling a muslim to go on a crussade. it won't work out because of ideological differences. (at the time)

Thats........smart.

Also my favorite revolution.

We have good taste in revolutions.

TheAwillz true

TheAwillz oh gee guess that’s why they forced white women to marry black men or face death. So whites in the island would go extinct. That was just reaction to what the slave owners did. Oh wait except they didn’t.

"Yes the killing of women and children is a crime" Actually no, it was justified. Women are not innocent just because they have vaginas and the children would just grow up to become slave owners themselves. They are all part of the same system, and thus were the enemy. Their actions were entirely logical.

Malamockq by just reading your comment its clear to me that you are sick in your mind.

+Emilio This troll is following me around now because I humiliated it in another comment thread. How pathetic. Ad hominems are a good way to discredit your position and reveal that you have no intellectual arguments. Like most racists, you don't like facts and are biased. Rationalizing and defending slavery is far more sick, if you want to view a sick person, look in the mirror.

Hi I have the same project, May I borrow your essay? :/

Carlson Gerelus could've mentioned that Haiti genocided all french speaking whites on the island leading to the imposition of the debt in the first place :^)

👏👏👏 I've seen many Dominicans here falsifying information to paint a narrative of Haitian Brutality and Dominican courage/victimhood. Luckily, people are barely noticing their comments. It's good to see somebody giving the unbiased truth.

Haiti is still very racist toward Europeans and particularly French people. Martinique and the people there are superior to Haiti in every way.

François Royal because french and Europe robed them of their little wealth

Nkosi Carter-Fisher We did that to get back at them for committing genocide upon the ethnic French population on Haiti.

you call it genocide, i call it justice. if the french never mistreated the slaves, the 'genocide' will have never happened

Nkosi Carter-Fisher If you call the slaughter of men, women and children who had no involvement in slavery at all "justice", then you are seriously sick in the head and should be telling this not to me, but to a doctor.