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Unit 4
Grades 11-12
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The Affranchis: How Color Divided the Revolution From Within

The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) is rightly remembered as the only successful large-scale slave revolt in world history. Less often taught is that the revolution's own leadership was internally divided along a color line that predated 1791 by generations, and that this…

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