The road to Freedom in Haiti

Let’s set the stage: what sparked the Haitian Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man  1789

The National Assembly of France believed that inequality and abuse of the right of man was the reason for corrupted government.  As a result of the French governmental corruption, the National Assembly of France passed a declaration on August 26, 1789 and called it “Declaration des Droits de L’homme et du Citoyen de 1789” Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.  
As a preparation for this Declaration, on July 14 the French deputies set slaves free with their Declaration of the Rights of Man.  During that same period of time, Vincent Ogé a Haitian mulatto who was living in France and was part of the free the slave movement requested to return to Haiti so he could carry his mission there.  Surprisingly they refused to let him leave France.  What he did, he went and changed his identity, moved to Great Britain then to United States and ultimately ended up in Haiti on an American ship.  In Haiti he met with his two friends Jean- Baptiste Chavannes and the two of them started the movement of freedom in Cap Haitian Haiti.  

Unfortunately that didn’t last long they were defeated along with their 400 combatants and on February 25, 1791 they were sentenced to execution of death on the wheel and a group of their followers were hanged and some sentenced to the galleys.
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