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Freedom didn’t arrive as a metaphor in Haiti; it marched, plotted, drummed, prayed, and fought until an empire blinked. We dive into the Haitian Revolution as both turning point and template—how a sugar colony bankrolled France, how revolt became governance, and how strategy split between accommodation and absolute resistance. Along the way, we talk straight about identity: you can’t be Haitian without being African, and the new online wars—FBA vs Caribbean vs continental Africans—feel like old divide-and-rule tactics with better Wi‑Fi.

We follow the early sparks—Makandal’s poison plots, Dutty Boukman’s faith and fire, maroons and Seminoles as twin paths to freedom—and explain how different empires ran slavery differently, shaping how and when people rebelled. Toussaint Louverture’s “phantom of liberty” sits beside Dessalines’ “irritated genie,” a blueprint for guerrilla warfare that turned Saint-Domingue into the one place a Black person could walk free with head high. We tackle myths about “killing all whites,” the welcoming of Polish soldiers, and why the constitution declared all Haitians Black. Flags matter too: black-red as militant sovereignty; blue-red signaling mulatto rule.

Then we trace the sabotage. The assassination of Dessalines, Christophe’s Citadel as deterrence, Pétion’s French courtship, and Boyer’s catastrophic acceptance of a French indemnity that drained Haiti for generations—and reinstated Catholicism to lock culture into new obedience. We link these choices to a longer playbook: propaganda in Dominican schools, religious pressure, and the quiet power of conditioning—from baby food boxes to TV—that teaches Black children to distrust their own image. Even language carries memory; African cadence flows where European consonants punch, and

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