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In 1791, the French colony of Saint-Domingue begin a slave revolt. In 1793, French Commissioners in St-Domingue proclaims full emancipation in the colony, which is followed in 1794 by an act abolishing slavery in French colonies.
This allowed France to keep the black majority of the island on its side, which was crucial to driving off the British and Spanish? Of course it also made the slave owners dedicated anti-revolutionnaries, who threatened to give over the French islands to the British.
By 1802 however Toussaint Louverture ruled Haïti even as he was nominally still loyal to France.

In the end, influenced by his wife's family (slaveowners in Martinique) Napoléon restored slavery in the French colonies. Toussaint immediately declared independance, and Napoléon would fail to take the island back.
What would happen had Napoléon not taken what many have said to be his worst decision? Would Haïti becomes independant anyway? And what about the other French colonies, would some of these be surrendered to the British by the planteurs, like Martinique was?
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