🌊 Ripple · counterfactual
What if the Haitian Revolution had gone differently?
1791 · caribbean
Enslaved people overthrow a slave colony and found a republic.
If it had gone differently: No state is founded by the formerly enslaved; abolition loses its sharpest argument for decades.
What it set up
- 1820Latin American independence, Spain's American empire holds; the idea that a colony can simply declare itself a nation loses its second great proof.
- 1833Britain abolishes slavery, The biggest naval power keeps slavery legal; abolition loses its first state sponsor and stalls for decades.
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