Serves: Haitian Population (helps slaves especially) Time Spent Cooking: 13 years Preheat oven to: 1791 C.E.
Things you will need: · Lack of defined political authority · Issuance of the Declaration of Rights of Man · Dash of Inspiration from the French revolution ( which represented a new concept of human rights, universal citizenship, and participation in government.) ·Disconnected Social Classes ·A total of 40,000 white planters (who owned the plantations and the slaves) and petit blancs (artisans, shop keepers and teachers) ·30,000 free black people (Semi-citizens) · Slaves ·Horrible working conditions · Great revolutionary leader
Steps for Success
Step 1: On August 26, 1789 have the Declaration of Right of Man be passed in France which states “In the eyes of the law all citizens are equal." This is where the dash of inspiration from the French revolution comes in.
Step 2: Make sure the French create a hierarchical structure based on skin color, class, and wealth. At the bottom should be the African-born plantation slaves; above them put the Creole slaves, who were born in the New World and spoke the French Creole dialect. The two next highest classes were made up of the mixed-race mulatto slaves and mulatto freedmen. Whites (wealthy merchants, high officials and plantation owners) constituted the top of the social structure (make sure they are broadly divided between the lower-ranking shopkeeper and smallholder class).
Step 3: Take 1/3 of the slaves from the Atlantic Slave Trade (nearly 800,000 slaves) from Africa. (Slaves arrived by the tens of thousands as coffee and sugar production boomed.)
Step 4: Put these slaves to work on labor intensive plantations. The plantations should have horrible conditions.
Step 5: Undo Saint-Domingue’s hierarchical society. Have the slaves abandon the plantations in increasing numbers, this will establish runaway slave (maroon) communities in remote areas of the colony. Have the maroon communities become a threat to the plantations, subjecting them to constant harassment and facilitating slave revolts and mass escapes.
Step 6: Have the free blacks and mulattoes demand full citizenship and property rights, this includes slaves and arable land for farming.
Step 7: On 1790 the National Assembly in Paris grants suffrage to tax-paying free blacks. Have the white planter-majority colonial assembly refuse. Haiti should now be engulfed in violence. This breakdown in civil order will spark many slave revolts and Spanish and British military intervention. There will be a struggle for control of the colony between French republican forces and Creole royalists supported by Spain and Britain. (Both sides will recruit indigenous armies of black slaves, free blacks, and mulattoes.)
Step 8: In 1791 take Toussaint Louverture as a commander within the rebel army of black slaves led by Georges Biassou and Jean-François. Louverture. He will give the leadership and organizational ability that was not present in previous uprisings. The revolution should begin.
NOTE *From now until about 1804 while your're letting the revolution cook there should be numerous slave revolts, elimination of slavery, and even the founding of the Republic of Haiti. *While waiting to cool after it is finished may be a time of difficulty as the country will still have internal struggles.
What makes this recipe unique? The Haitian Revolution culminated in the first independent nation in the Caribbean, the second democracy in the western hemisphere, and the first black republic in the world.