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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.

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What it made possible

Later turning points that leaned on the Haitian Revolution. Change it in the game and the ripples reach all of these.

  1. 1820Latin American independence. Without it, Spain's American empire holds; the idea that a colony can simply declare itself a nation loses its second great proof.
  2. 1833Britain abolishes slavery. Without it, The biggest naval power keeps slavery legal; abolition loses its first state sponsor and stalls for decades.

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