The Haitian Revolution - The Long Fuse - Extra History - Part 2

📜 The Haitian Revolution: The Long Fuse - Across the water, the French National Assembly debate a new document, drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Little do they know that this document will ignite the fuse leading to the powder keg in Saint-Domingue. Hold on to your fancy Revolutionary hats because things are going to get absolutely buck wild. Alliances will be formed and break within weeks, laws will last about the same time, and while all this chaos is happening, a revolt is forming.

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[extrahistory]

This period of history seriously needs a flow chart to keep track of all of the alliances that are made and broken and in a really short period of time.

[AsiniusNaso]

The ball and chain becoming a bomb and chain with the “long fuse” is some great imagery.

[LORDOFDORKNESS]

It's kinda darkly amusing how at least some people that speak of 'All People' clearly had these HUGE mental asterixis next to those words... and were shocked when others heard the words as *All* People, and acted accordingly.

[skyes]

"They borrowed from the American Declaration"

All men are created equal*
*TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY*

[shadiafifi]

"Those who make peaceful revolution (reform/change) impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK, 1962

[rashkavar]

"Revolutionary politics is going to resemble a bagful of cats on espresso."



Quite possibly the best comparison you guys have made in this entire series.

[Kaldurahm]

"...and broken on the wheel" That line got me. The cruelty. The ingenuity in service to that cruelty. Evil. To imagine my ancestors living with that hanging above their heads...

[ramshacklealex]

In case anyone was curious, at 2:15 that says "Am I not your brother?" And I think it's interesting that they used the specifically singular and familiar version of "your" too

[LeafseasonMagbag]

Slaves:”We’re not even asking to be freed can you please just stop whipping us?”
Big Whites: *”NO”*

[shawnheatherly]

The fact that everything so far had been the simple part and we've got nearly half a dozen factions all after their own goals makes me both excited and worried I should be taking notes.

[quentinstephens]

This stuff they don't teach us in school. It's to "violent" for them, and yet we learn about people that had slaves.

[DragoniteSpam]

7:00 I guess this would be a question for Lies at the end, what's been the hardest series to research due to either a lack of written sources or something more exotic like information being burned? (this also came up in the Akhenaten video.)
Unrelated but the last time you said "all of that stuff before was the simple part" we got a Walpole meme, so this ought to be good.

[gibbbon]

1:26, the U before the R in "couleur" is not optional like in english, "couler" is the verb for "to sink", totally unrelated to colors

[meleileen]

Where was this video when I was confused during AP World History? That was so much easier to understand than the textbook explanation, though it's too late to necessarily help my grades, thank you for the amazing video!

[natethenoble]

Names to remember for later:
Andre Rigaud
Petion
Dessalines
Boyer
Henri Christophe
Leclerc
Napoleon
Toussaint
Pretty sure that you guys aren't even going to have enough time to dedicate portraits for all of these people.

[robertwalpole]

2:15 Ne suis-je pas ton frère?
Non, car je suis Walpole.

[seelcudoom]

one small issue is the mention of the "goddess of love", haitan vodou is monotheistic, there is only Bondye, who is considered supreme but also unreachable, the loa, while revered and served, are explicitly not gods, the closest concept Christianity has to them would be saints or archangels, who the loa are sometimes synchronized with

[Argacyan]

"White colonials utterly refusing to implement moderate reforms" is a common theme in history lol. The reversal too: Moderates refusing to implement nor support reforms.

[haitiancreolewithluciano]

Our history is awesome! First free black people 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹 By the way, we speak a wonderful language as well: Haitian Creole (I teach it on my channel). Anyways, glad you guys decided to narrate our story I’m such a fun and precise way. Thanks!!!

[GoErikTheRed]

That ending reads like an intro to one of the old the old Total War games.
"The slaves picked up their cane knives, and made ready for war."