Similarities Between Haitian And Latin American Revolution

The Haitian Revolution and the Latin American Revolution were the most similar. Both revolutions were not wanting to be controlled by their so-called mother countries. Latin America wanted to be free from Spain while the Haitian's wanted to be free from France. Both places were angry over the inequalities that were rooted into their culture and revolted to try and change the inequalities. According to Robert W. Strayer, author of "Ways of the World", the Haitians were unhappy with their situation. "Given its enormous inequalities and its rampant exploitation, this Caribbean colony was primed for explosion" (Strayer, 793). The Haitians were angry over being taken advantage of and revolted accordingly. The Creoles from the Latin American Revolution

The Haitian revolution was a fight for equality and freedom from slavery. The American revolution was a fight for freedom from Britain, but not for equality within the colonies. Americans felt they deserved the same rights as the British while the Haitians wanted humane rights in general. "Thus the American Revolution did not grow out of social tensions within the colonies, but from a rather sudden and unexpected effort by the British government to tighten its control over the colonies to extract more revenue from them" (Strayer, 786). The Americans revolutionists, who wanted to fight, were more privileged colonists who were angry about being overtaxed compared to the slave revolutionists in Haiti. Granted the Americans had slaves who fought but the idea of the revolution wasn’t for them. The American revolutionists freed themselves from Britain and became a Republic. They continued to own slaves and do nothing about women's rights. The whole idea of the Haitian revolution was to free the slaves and have them be as equal as everyone else. All of the systems in the Haitian revolution, Grand blancs, Gens de couleur, and slaves became equal, free, and independent. Toussaint made a deal with Napoleon to win Haiti's independence after fighting his troops. "Amid the confusion, brutality, and massacres of the 1790s, power gravitiated toward the slaves, now led by the astute Toussiant