| Haiti located on the island of Hispaniola became a colony with plantations of coffee or cotton and thousands of slaves were brought from Africa and were treated badly by the white farmers |
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| The slaves decided to have a rebeliion against the farmers and led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave who proclaimed himslef the governer of the island. They were killing the whites and burning the plantations |
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| Toussaint died in France in 1803, and Dessaline one of his officers took the power of the country and it became the first black independent country |
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