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On this day in 1804, Haiti declared its independence after a slave uprising turned into a revolution that crushed the French colonizers.⁠

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After kicking out the French the former colony was renamed "Haiti", the Indigenous Arawak name for the island, and would become the first Black republic in the world as well as the first nation in the Western Hemisphere that abolished slavery.⁠

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The independence of Haiti was a major blow to French colonialism and inspired revolutionaries around the world as one of the most successful slave revolutions in history.

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