Haitian Revolution Essay Assignment

Haitian Revolution Essay

Directions: For this essay you will be choosing your own question to answer about the Haitian Revolution. Once you have chosen your question and brainstormed some ideas on how to answer the question you should turn to the resources we studies together in class to identify evidence to support your claims. This sheet should be able to help you begin and organize your thoughts before you sit to write a full paper.

Thesis (Remember to identify two to three reasons that support your position. Alternate arguments should also be included): Some key words: While, however, even though, despite, in spite, the most, the least, consequently, as a result, as such, therefore, caused, resulted in…etc)

Resources and Citation:

1. Overview of Saint Domingue (Chapman)

2. Le Code Noir (Louis XVI)

3. Dec of Rights of Man and Citizen (The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen)

4. Slaves are not property (Hunt 56-57)

5. Society of the friends of blacks (Hunt 107-108)

6. End humiliating distinctions (Cahiers, Paris 1789)

7. Motto of Slave Rebellion (Steward 35)

8. Rights are not for everyone (Hunt 111)

9. An Absurd Regime (Steward 53-54)

10. Louverture's bio and excerpts (Korngold 143-260)

11. Vodou and Resistance to Slavery (Massey 8)

12. Haiti's Declaration of Independence (Dessalines)

13. Dessalines Painting (Monpremier)

14. From the Historians (Almond 85) (Egerton) (Geggus)