The Haitian Revolution (In Our Time)
1791 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Haitian Revolution. In 1791 an uprising began in the French colonial territory of St Domingue. Partly a consequence of the French Revolution and partly a backlash against the brutality of slave owners, it turned into a complex struggle involving not just the residents of the island but French, English and Spanish force
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1791
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)