Tag: 1804 Haitian revolution
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Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Had Defeated the Colonists’ Bid for Independence?
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"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery." — Marquis de Lafayette, French military leader who was instrumental in enlisting French support for the colonists in the American War of Independence. Historians have long grappled with the…