Sentences with phrase «haitian slave revolt»

, which represents his first effort trying to branch out as an actor in an important film about an 18th - century Haitian slave revolt.

Haitian slave revolts were violent, and Napoleons draconian intervention for restoring order resulted in the Haitians distrusting Europeans and eschewing future trade and investments, imports and exports, immigration and emigration.

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He was a more impressive figure than our own Founding Fathers in at least three respects: He had been a slave for most of his life; he was a famously devout Christian; and his accomplishment remains unmatched to this day, for the Haitian Revolution is still the only successful slave revolt in history.

Partly inspired by Francois Makandal, an 18th Century Haitian revolutionary who led a failed slave revolt, the opera incorporates art by Duval - Carrié.