Did a Slave Rebellion in Haiti Help the U.S. Double in Size?
Did a Slave Rebellion in Haiti Help the U.S. Double in Size? Monday January 18, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) The tragic news about the earthquake in Haiti has brought up an often overlooked subject, the birth of the Caribbean nation following a slave rebellion and how that impacted the young United States Is it true that the slave rebellion in Haiti led to the United States doubling in size? Yes, it is. In the 1790s Haiti was a French colony called Saint Domingue, and an uprising of slaves eventually led to the colony declaring independence as the nation of Haiti on January 1, 1804. At that time, President Thomas Jefferson was interested in purchasing the city of New Orleans from France. But Napoleon’s government, thinking its land holdings in North America were not worth keeping without the prize colony of Saint Domingue, offered to sell what is essentia
