![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To this day, Haiti is the only country in history to have done so, making it a truly unique nation.ĭespite its huge historically significance, the history of the scope of these human ideals is often lost in the modern narrative about the country and is also distinctly uncelebrated for the human triumph that it was.(1)įollowing the United States victory for independence against a European colonial ruler in 1776 Haiti, in 1804, become only the second New World republic. On 1 January, 1804 Haitians officially declared their independence from their French colonial masters that had so brutally enslaved them and in doing so Haiti became the first nation to be born from a successful slave revolt. It is widely accepted that the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation did not in of itself actually bring about the end to slavery in the US, so not only did the Haitian revolution put an end to slavery some 59 years in advance of even this comparatively limited event, but it also did so on the basis of human ideals that superseded even those of the French revolution Haiti's revolution had at its heart the notion of universality. Whilst today is the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation it is also the anniversary of another historic event, although one that is little known by comparison, that actually saw the end to slavery, Haitian independence. ![]()
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