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Haitian Revolution
1791–1804 · Saint-Domingue / Haiti · Emancipatory · Movement · coding confidence medium
Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
The only successful large-scale slave revolt in history, converting the universal claims of the French Revolution into universal practice.
Economic model
Plantation land broken up over time into smallholdings; early attempts to retain export agriculture under compulsion.
Organisation of powers
Military leadership hardening into imperial and then presidential rule; the 1805 constitution abolished slavery absolutely.
Reading note
Scores at the universalist extreme of the membership axis. France demanded reparations for the loss of its slaves until 1947, which is a fact about the axis and about the era.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored 00
Coded at zero: plantations retained under compulsion, then broken into smallholdings.
- Documented act or statuteToussaint's 1801 constitution retained plantation labour; land fragmented into peasant holdings after 1804.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −04
Coded −4: legal equality across colour in a slave society.
- Programme textThe 1801 constitution declared all persons born free and equal regardless of colour.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +05
Coded +5: military leadership hardening into imperial and presidential rule.
- Documented act or statuteDessalines was proclaimed emperor in 1804 and assassinated in 1806.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +04
Coded +4: a centralised state under permanent external threat.
- Documented act or statuteThe state maintained a standing army against expected French reinvasion.
ID · Rule of membership · scored −08
At the universalist pole: slavery abolished absolutely and unconditionally.
- Programme textThe 1805 constitution abolished slavery forever and barred foreign ownership of land.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +10
At the ceiling: the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history.
- Documented act or statuteThe revolt began in 1791 and defeated Spanish, British and French armies over thirteen years.
Where it came from, and what came after
- gave doctrine toBolivarian Republicanism
Pétion supplied arms and shelter on condition that the liberator abolish slavery.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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