they are not allowed to teach that the louisiana purchase started with the haitian revolution?

Question

The french owned those lands but they were tired after the haitinas who were slaves revolted and killed the french,. The french were tired and gave the u.s the louisiana territories. Historically this was not taught because the americans did not want the american blacks to hear about the revolt because they wanted blacks to believe they were inferior. The haitians had inferior weapons when they defeated the french.The ethiopians also defeated the italians with inferior weapons as the itialians also thought africans were stupid.

Answer 1

If you want to study History, start by being unemotional and looking at the fact's. Napoleon did want the Louisiana territory originally. The slave revolt killed the planter's and Colonial troop's. Yellow fever basically decimated the army he sent to retake the island. The slave's resistance had very little to do with that. He sent professionals from North Europe and the climate killed them. If you are going to invade Russia, fighting a constant war in Spain, and trying to figure out how to defeat the British navy and invade Great Britain back then, well this was an expensive sideshow. His reasoning was simple, sell this to the USA for a sudden infusion of cash, use the money to help defeat his Continental enemies and come back later and take it all back. Reality tell's us it never happened. He was defeated by an European alliance. That was in spite of high quality and loyal troop's and his own basic military genius. We used the purchase as jumping off place for Manifest Denisty and spread to California. And it never had anything more to do with Haiti. By the way I never have thought Africans were stupid.

Answer 2

Umm, from what I'm seeing, the Louisiana Purchase started in 1795 with Pinckney's Treaty between the US and Spain. The treaty was revoked in 1798 and in 1800 Spain and France signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso which returned the territory to French control for the first time since 1762. However, the territory wasn't in French control until November 30, 1803, weeks before it was sold to the US.

It doesn't really look as if the Haitian Revolution had that big an effect on the purchase. And consider the Stono Rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina and the New York Slave Insurrection of 1741. Neither were as successful as the Haitian Revolution, but both not only predate it but show that blacks had already risen up before.

Answer 3

To my mind, all the works of Ira Berlin provide the most detailed, comprehensive, and compassionate treatment of all of these questions. These are indispensable and compelling reading:
"Slaves Without Masters: The Free ***** in the Antebellum South" (1975), "Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in Mainland North America" (1999) and finally, "Generations of Captivity: A History of Slaves in the United States" (2002). He also heads a multi-volume series which publishes original source materials, letters, Bills of Sale, Letters of Manumission, etc.
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Answer 4

Answer; Pat Robertson is a bitter old con-man who wears Gucci shoes and Armoni suits while going on tv begging for money to enrich his Religious Empire. Slaves overthrowing their Honky masters? (that's when the deal with the devil was made. Pat knows, he was there) Why that's Anti-Corporatism! Besides, their Catholics! What more proof do you need! (sorry, channeling Jerry Farewell there for a moment.)

Answer 5

It wasn't so much the Haitians that defeated the French as much as it was the mosquito. Yellow fever was the Haitians' greatest ally in that war.

Answer 6

Probably because this was not a major topic in *American* history. I did hear something of this in my class, but our class is in New Jersey Princeton, a northern state with a different view on history than the southern.

Answer 7

is this a question??

viva toussaint l'ouverture

Answer 8

wooooowww....i really just learned something new...and the sad thing iz i live in louisiana and i didnt even kno that......thanx for the info....but wat wuz your question in this...???