Effects Of Haitian Imperialism

The Era of Imperialism was a period, beginning around 1760, where European and other select nations competed to own countries and then colonize them. European powers desired land, economic growth, and to be superior to the other nations surrounding them. Haiti had been colonized by France in 1697 after beating the Spanish. South Africa had formerly been colonized by the English but in 1902 the Treaty of Vereeniging had given the power to the Boers, the minority white population. The Boers then set up apartheid. Finally, after China had been plowed through by war and colonization, communism was the final blow to push out any foreign population. While civil disobedience and peaceful protest were fruitful methods of resisting imperialism, violence

The Haitian Revolution changed the ideas of fighting for independence and decolonization after being ruled by the French. Haiti, formerly known by the French name of Saint Dominque, was a rich country in the Caribbean Sea. They were a crop-rich colony of France, producing the highest amount of cotton, coffee, sugar, and indigo. There was a huge divide between social classes and racism was extremly prevalent. The five distinct social classes caused the start of the revolution. Blacks, who were enslaved, free, or had even run away sparked the ideas of revolution and violence. Saint Dominque was a slave labor state with all of their crops coming from the labor of enslaved blacks. Due to that big social divide, there was disregard for having diplomatic relations with any of the black Haitian residents and workers. The revolution began on August 21, 1791, starting immediately with combat. In less than a year one-third of the country was overtaken. The French sent in soldiers to push back the resistors, then the English decided to join the fight and aid France, and England also sent soldiers to fight back. Former slave Toussaint L’Ouverture led the revolution, yet he was eventually captured and

Apartheid was established officially in 1942. Shown in image shown (Appendix A) the existence of apartheid was a segregated policy put in place to create a divided community based on race. Also in the image the writing is only in English and Afrikaans, which completely disregards the thousands of indigenous african languages that were spoken in South America. The main organization that started resisting was the ANC (the African national congress) Originally organized resistance was peaceful but that had not worked for the fight against apartheid. The 21st of March, 1960, was the day of the Sharpeville massacre. This was an event that changed the way that the ANC protested. The police attacked and killed 69 peaceful protesters, most of we're young children. A leaflet issued by the command of Umkhonto we Sizwe on December 16, 1961, just around a year after the Sharpeville massacre, states “ The time has come in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight … the peoples non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitation to use armed force against the people without any fear or reprisals.” This demonstrates how armed resistance was the ANC’s last resort, it was the only option. The government didn't care and showed the peace demonstrated by the ANC with violence. Yet while some