**George Washington’s Policy Toward the Haitian Revolution**
On the night of 22 August, 1791, a slave insurrection broke out in the French West Indian colony of Saint Domingue, present-day Haiti. Unlike other slave insurrections in the New World, the Haitian revolution led to the creation of a modern state. The slaves, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, overthrew the French planter regime in June 1793 and declared the colony independent of France in 1804. This successful black uprising caused a crisis in the Washington administration because it threatened America’s extensive commerce with Saint Domingue, Franco- and Anglo-American relations, and the racial stability of the South. Federal policy grew out of several, often conflicting, factors, no one of which can completely explain the behavior of leading officials in the Washington administration. This essay focuses upon the formation of federal policy toward Saint Domingue, the implementation of that policy between September 1791 and June 1793, and the eventual failure of administration efforts to suppress the Haitian revolt in mid-1793.
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**George Washington’s Policy Toward the Haitian Revolution**
On the night of 22 August, 1791, a slave insurrection broke out in the French West Indian colony of Saint Domingue, present-day Haiti. Unlike other slave insurrections in the New World, the Haitian revolution led to the creation of a modern state. The slaves, led by Toussaint L’Ouverture, overthrew the French planter regime in June 1793 and declared the colony independent of France in 1804. This successful black uprising caused a crisis in the Washington administration because it threatened America’s extensive commerce with Saint Domingue, Franco- and Anglo-American relations, and the racial stability of the South. Federal policy grew out of several, often conflicting, factors, no one of which can completely explain the behavior of leading officials in the Washington administration. This essay focuses upon the formation of federal policy toward Saint Domingue, the implementation of that policy between September 1791 and June 1793, and the eventual failure of administration efforts to suppress the Haitian revolt in mid-1793.
[https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/3/3/321/366397?redirectedFrom=fulltext](https://academic.oup.com/dh/article-abstract/3/3/321/366397?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
britain and france and spain have been way more involved with caribbean, so blame them for caribbean being how it is today
and george washington is a fictional character with fake history