Anonymous #1 31w

Alternative history is hard to predict but Haiti these days isn’t doing so well

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Anonymous justinian 31w

Yea but that’s cause they owe debt to the French. If the slave revolt didn’t happen in a colony but in an independent nation then idk if they’d have the same struggles

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Anonymous justinian 31w

Yeah man Haiti isn’t doing well because America and all of Europe got really butthurt about their revolution and decided to punish them for 150 years for it

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Anonymous #5 31w

brother if 40% of a population actively partakes in a rebellion that government is COOKED

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 31w

Well I think it’s more difficult when the revolting population is enslaved. There’s a reason successful slave revolts are so rare

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Anonymous #5 31w

This was a sensitive subject in a recent discussion: claiming that only the northern army could have freed the slaves strikes some as “white savior” syndrome. On the other hand, claiming that slaves would have eventually revolted successfully allegedly diminishes the deaths of soldiers in that war.

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Implies the deaths were unnecessary, if the outcome would have been the same, maybe?

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 31w

I think in this hypothetical scenario that a similar thing could happen

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Anonymous #6 31w

No, most agree that slavery in name would have though

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 31w

Theres a lot of truth in that, but you can also lay a lot of blame on the revolutionary leaders who seized power after Louverture

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