Haitian Revolution Vs American Revolution

During the 18th and 19th centuries, people began to get tired of the mistreatment they were experiencing. Many revolutions began to restore freedom or create freedom. Americans began to think for themselves and start to protest. The Americans started to meet with new ideas of the enlightenment and began to think of ways to overthrow the current king and create a system of government that would be more effective and beneficial to the people. Many people became frustrated with the king because of all the new taxes he was issuing, such as the Stamp Act. Colonists began to kidnap British officials and cover them in tar and feathers, they destroyed boats and refused to pay for the damage, and as the British tried to come and control the revolts, the war began. Many fights broke out and many lives were lost, but the colonists eventually prevailed and gained their freedom.

In Europe the French Revolution and the wars that followed promoted the political ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte and democracy’s modern enemy, popular authoritarianism. The revolutions in France and Haiti became much more violent and destructive than the American Revolution. American revolutionaries defeated Great Britain and established independence without overturning a colonial social order that depended on slavery in most of the southern colonies. Revolutionaries in France and Haiti faced more powerful oppositions and greater social inequalities than American revolutionaries. The resistance of privileged elites led to greater violence. Both French and Haitian revolutionaries also faced powerful foreign interventions that intensified the bloodshed and destructiveness of these