How Did The French Revolution Affect Haiti

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in France's colony in Haiti. The Haitian revolutionaries benefited greatly from the Enlightenment ideas of progress and freedom, the latter of which was consummated by the National Assembly in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. These ideas not only laid the groundwork for the French Revolution, but also manifested themselves in the Haitian Revolution, ideologically involved in events such as slave rebellions, emancipation of slaves, and even the eventual Haitian independence. Not only did the ideas of the French Revolution affect Haiti, such as representation, and most importantly, legal equality, but the actual events that occurred directly impacted the sequence of events in Haiti. The National Assembly, created after