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Cotton Image Of The Haitian Revolution

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On page 141 the image shows the white women, men and children running from the armed black people. The image is about the Haitian Revolution from 1791-1804. The image shows what happens when slaves decide to come together and make a change on slavery and abuse. The black people show the most in masculinity due to them going against the French colonist at Saint Domingue. On page 139 shows a chart on the growth of slave labor and cotton. The chart starts with 1.6 million slaves take care of 0.3 million cotton plants. As the time goes to 1860 the slaves goes to 4 million and the cotton as well goes to 4 million plants. The growth of growing cotton means the growth of the need of slaves. This means that black lives was seen as cattle or horse
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