# Ep. 28: The Haitian Revolution, with Jason Kuznicki

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/liberty-chronicles/ep-28-the-haitian-revolution-with-jason-kuznicki>

**By** Anthony Comegna

**Published:** November 14, 2017

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What happened in Haiti in the 1790s was unique and truly revolutionary.

Few concepts or examples in history have a total sample size of exactly one. With history-making resolve, the slaves in Haiti seized their freedom, which revolutionary Paris only begrudgingly recognized. When the planters, the British, the Spanish, and finally Napoleon himself tried to re-enslave them, they simply refused and resolved themselves to fight to the death for the liberties they'd won.

### Further Readings/References:

[James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. New York: Vintage. 1989.](http://www.ouleft.org/wp-content/uploads/CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf)

Scott, Julius Sheppard. “The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication in the Era of the Haitian Revolution,” (PhD Dissertation): Duke University. 1986.

West, Martin, and Wilkins (eds.). From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 2009.