The Haitian Revolution - The Long Fuse - Extra History - Part 2

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  • 📜 The Haitian Revolution: The Long Fuse - Across the water, the French National Assembly debate a new document, drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Little do they know that this document will ignite the fuse leading to the powder keg in Saint-Domingue. Hold on to your fancy Revolutionary hats because things are going to get absolutely buck wild. Alliances will be formed and break within weeks, laws will last about the same time, and while all this chaos is happening, a revolt is forming.
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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  Pƙed 4 lety +913

    This period of history seriously needs a flow chart to keep track of all of the alliances that are made and broken and in a really short period of time.

    • @BlueflameKing1
      @BlueflameKing1 Pƙed 4 lety +23

      That's what happens in the late 18th century. And if we thought that this century was crazy, well, We all know Bismark and the long 19th century.

    • @felixmortem1177
      @felixmortem1177 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      @@BlueflameKing1 Immediately followed by Fascism, Communism and the long 20th century

    • @GeneralLuigiTBC
      @GeneralLuigiTBC Pƙed 4 lety +8

      This one might be a lost cause; a two-dimensional chart might look more like a cobweb and a three-dimensional "chart" would probably just look confusing.

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Also worth remembering that through this time, the king was still in power. They were not guillotining on masse yet. It was looking like it was going to be a British style parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The republic was near unthinkable at the time.

    • @robertcoleman349
      @robertcoleman349 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      I would buy such a chart!

  • @skyes4552
    @skyes4552 Pƙed 4 lety +1629

    "They borrowed from the American Declaration"
    All men are created equal*
    *TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY*

    • @operleutnant7235
      @operleutnant7235 Pƙed 4 lety +10

      Okay Boomer If You're a Boomer, I don’t agree with slavery at all but from what I have found it was that the primary reason for slavery in the US was economical. The first problem with a building a country it getting it off the ground so trying to support it economically makes sense. Sure racism was of course there but saying that it was the exclusive reason would be dishonest. I am not saying the your saying that but what your saying seems to me that you are saying that

    • @TheMegaxPlus
      @TheMegaxPlus Pƙed 4 lety +118

      @@operleutnant7235 ...what?

    • @embs5803
      @embs5803 Pƙed 4 lety +134

      @@operleutnant7235 yeah dude, what are you saying? I understand you think you're smart or something, but there isn't a single excuse for slavery, economic gain isn't an excuse for exploitation.

    • @i_am_anxious0247
      @i_am_anxious0247 Pƙed 4 lety +36

      The Pale Plague Doctor “economic gain is a reason to limit freedom to one specific minority, and thus all mean really ARE equal under slavery.” Considering the original comment, this is what you’re saying.
      Even then, it was only economic because people decided they wanted slavery in the first place. And it was indeed racist or white people would’ve been enslaved. And I’d have some amount of forgiveness if it were a form of indentured servitude that you opted into or a slave master that was kind to the slaves, but the first one of those wasn’t the case and the other usually wasn’t.

    • @3yshopss
      @3yshopss Pƙed 4 lety +27

      @@operleutnant7235 You sound highly Uneducated. Just go stream your video games young fella.

  • @shadiafifi54
    @shadiafifi54 Pƙed 4 lety +1488

    "Those who make peaceful revolution (reform/change) impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK, 1962

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 Pƙed 4 lety +114

      "I assert that a little revolution once in a while is a good thing." - credited to Thomas Jefferson

    • @dr.vikyll7466
      @dr.vikyll7466 Pƙed 4 lety +29

      @@stephenwright8824 I mean say what you will about him, he's not wrong.

    • @totagamefull
      @totagamefull Pƙed 4 lety +14

      @@dr.vikyll7466 I don't, revolutions generally ends with either things being worse for the people or causing pointless bloodshed.

    • @andyjay729
      @andyjay729 Pƙed 4 lety +17

      @Yolo Swaggins The question is whether or not the "revolters" turn out to be the good guys in the long run. I don't think many of us would want to live in Lenin's Russia or Franco's Spain...

    • @AtodaK
      @AtodaK Pƙed 4 lety +30

      ​@@andyjay729 A thing to remember is that most people's political imagination is limited by what they've experienced, which means that after a successful revolution the outcome is likely to closely resemble the situation they revolted against. So Tsarist Russia and it's autocratic regime that depended upon a secret police monitoring the underclass was replaced with Communist Russia with an autocratic regime that depended upon a secret police monitoring the underclass with a few improvements that didn't always last long. One reason that the US' revolution was so successful was because the colonies were already fairly independent and self-regulating.

  • @LORDOFDORKNESS42
    @LORDOFDORKNESS42 Pƙed 4 lety +1326

    It's kinda darkly amusing how at least some people that speak of 'All People' clearly had these HUGE mental asterixis next to those words... and were shocked when others heard the words as *All* People, and acted accordingly.

    • @magnemoe1
      @magnemoe1 Pƙed 4 lety +19

      The idea that all homo sapiens is real people is an recent idea, so recent it might be radical in the 18th century.
      No its not that the the other side was evil and cruel but that they was not people, nor that they killed lots of our people so we return the favor who was the 20th century version.

    • @jannegrey593
      @jannegrey593 Pƙed 4 lety +96

      If you don't see other people as people it's unfortunately very easy :( .

    • @rangergxi
      @rangergxi Pƙed 4 lety +11

      And its nice that some heard it "all people" and set out to set others free.

    • @submarineinthesky8946
      @submarineinthesky8946 Pƙed 4 lety +65

      Kinda like how the magna carta guaranteed the rights of "freemen", but back then the only freemen were nobles.

    • @this_is_patrick
      @this_is_patrick Pƙed 4 lety +30

      Some people believe that the word 'all' or 'universal' is pretty negotiable and that _some_ people are actually _more_ equal than others.

  • @LeafseasonMagbag
    @LeafseasonMagbag Pƙed 4 lety +451

    Slaves:”We’re not even asking to be freed can you please just stop whipping us?”
    Big Whites: *”NO”*

    • @joshuakleopfer751
      @joshuakleopfer751 Pƙed 3 lety +37

      And that is why you don't do racism friends

    • @cardboardbox191
      @cardboardbox191 Pƙed 3 lety +20

      You think they'd have agreed and found something else to beat them with.

    • @prestonjones1653
      @prestonjones1653 Pƙed 3 lety +18

      Honestly that doesn't even spund too bad a deal for the Big Whites, like why resist that little bit of change? Wouldn't happy slaves be more productive ones?

    • @randomcatmeow1394
      @randomcatmeow1394 Pƙed 2 lety +30

      @@prestonjones1653 It's not about money or productivity at that point, its about arrogance and pride.

    • @samuelademeso9041
      @samuelademeso9041 Pƙed rokem

      Big whites: hey how about we make a deal in return to not killin us
      Slaves: bruh, the ship has sailed long ago * proceed to cut them with machetes

  • @rashkavar
    @rashkavar Pƙed 4 lety +704

    "Revolutionary politics is going to resemble a bagful of cats on espresso."
    Quite possibly the best comparison you guys have made in this entire series.

    • @idkwhatnametochoose6197
      @idkwhatnametochoose6197 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      “This isn’t whac-a-mole, it’s sign language with destroyers.”

  • @AsiniusNaso
    @AsiniusNaso Pƙed 4 lety +837

    The ball and chain becoming a bomb and chain with the “long fuse” is some great imagery.

    • @imacatman8775
      @imacatman8775 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      AsiniusNaso
      Yeah it was captivating to me too

    • @aninomousflyer1049
      @aninomousflyer1049 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      To be honest, I think all the artwork is AMAAAZING

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Pƙed 2 lety

      that would be one sick tattoo

    • @ruffusgoodman4137
      @ruffusgoodman4137 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@aninomousflyer1049 Sure, but I think he commented on the creativity for that one particularly

    • @aninomousflyer1049
      @aninomousflyer1049 Pƙed 2 lety +1

      @@ruffusgoodman4137 Ohh, I kind of knew that already. I didn’t mean to come on or seem hash and dismissive. 😞 I’m Sorry.

  • @Kaldurahm1
    @Kaldurahm1 Pƙed 4 lety +374

    "...and broken on the wheel" That line got me. The cruelty. The ingenuity in service to that cruelty. Evil. To imagine my ancestors living with that hanging above their heads...

    • @AmbivalentDreams
      @AmbivalentDreams Pƙed 4 lety +33

      Evil indeed, it should highlight for all of us their bravery in struggle for freedom they fought for, laying the foundations for the liberation of all.

    • @Terrkas0
      @Terrkas0 Pƙed 4 lety +17

      Humanity can be surprisingly creative and cruel when it comes to punishments and torture.

    • @regallag888
      @regallag888 Pƙed 4 lety +16

      Yeah, I had to rewind and make sure I heard that right. That's a barbarous punishment by medieval standards.

    • @Kaldurahm1
      @Kaldurahm1 Pƙed 4 lety +18

      I imagined this as if it were today. Think. Actual, living, thinking people in your neighborhood, in your community being broken on a wheel as a punishment today. It boggles the mind to imagine entire cities of people going "Yup. This seems acceptable. I'm good with the screams."
      The horror without the fog of history is even worse.

    • @theotakuking4136
      @theotakuking4136 Pƙed 4 lety

      What does broken on the wheel mean

  • @quentinstephens8365
    @quentinstephens8365 Pƙed 3 lety +32

    This stuff they don't teach us in school. It's to "violent" for them, and yet we learn about people that had slaves.

  • @ramshacklealex7772
    @ramshacklealex7772 Pƙed 4 lety +152

    In case anyone was curious, at 2:15 that says "Am I not your brother?" And I think it's interesting that they used the specifically singular and familiar version of "your" too

    • @malikelshabazz3192
      @malikelshabazz3192 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Oh yeah they said ton instead of vos

    • @hamzaelyousfi5842
      @hamzaelyousfi5842 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@malikelshabazz3192 vĂŽtre*

    • @hamzaelyousfi5842
      @hamzaelyousfi5842 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Vos is the plural form vĂŽtre is singular

    • @ramshacklealex7772
      @ramshacklealex7772 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      @@hamzaelyousfi5842 Technically it's votre, not vĂŽtre. The former is the possessive adjective (as in _votre chose - your thing)_ and the latter is the possessive pronoun (as in _cette chose est la vĂŽtre - this thing is yours)._

    • @malikelshabazz3192
      @malikelshabazz3192 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@hamzaelyousfi5842 ahh my bad

  • @shawnheatherly
    @shawnheatherly Pƙed 4 lety +153

    The fact that everything so far had been the simple part and we've got nearly half a dozen factions all after their own goals makes me both excited and worried I should be taking notes.

    • @TheFiresloth
      @TheFiresloth Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Wait for the British to support the Grands-Blancs, then abolish the slave trade and support the revolution. It's quite the mind-fuck.

    • @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
      @Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Pƙed 4 lety +3

      The Haitian revolution is particularly complicated story, not helped by poor records (enslaved and formerly enslaved people left few records due to illiteracy). Every subject they cover has at least s few full books on it but the Haitian revolution has dozens if not hundreds and many questions still linger (again poor records). You could get a Ph.D in the subject and still miss a lot.

    • @Drecon84
      @Drecon84 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@TheFiresloth spoilers! :P

    • @ReddoFreddo
      @ReddoFreddo Pƙed 4 lety +2

      It makes me wonder if there's a Game of Thrones-like television series about this. We really need more Game of Thrones like tv series about historical events.

  • @DragoniteSpam
    @DragoniteSpam Pƙed 4 lety +533

    7:00 I guess this would be a question for Lies at the end, what's been the hardest series to research due to either a lack of written sources or something more exotic like information being burned? (this also came up in the Akhenaten video.)
    Unrelated but the last time you said "all of that stuff before was the simple part" we got a Walpole meme, so this ought to be good.

    • @spess4804
      @spess4804 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      Wait how was this posted 23 hours ago if this video was uploaded today??????

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@spess4804 It's available earlier for the Patreon supporters.

    • @warrcoww6717
      @warrcoww6717 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      I throwing my bet in with the Bronze Age Collapse series

    • @Skios
      @Skios Pƙed 4 lety +2

      @@warrcoww6717 That or the series on Hiawatha.

    • @zahariburgess3660
      @zahariburgess3660 Pƙed 4 lety

      you are wright the french were so embarraased they hid most of the details cause the were fooled by their own foolishness

  • @gibbbon
    @gibbbon Pƙed 4 lety +244

    1:26, the U before the R in "couleur" is not optional like in english, "couler" is the verb for "to sink", totally unrelated to colors

    • @kingpopaul
      @kingpopaul Pƙed 4 lety +15

      Ah yes, the sink free people were always ignored.

    • @Bakanogaikokujin
      @Bakanogaikokujin Pƙed 4 lety +10

      @@kingpopaul beware the Deep Ones...

    • @Bakanogaikokujin
      @Bakanogaikokujin Pƙed 4 lety +2

      Off topic ish, but why is "color" used in American English and "colour" used in British English?

    • @gibbbon
      @gibbbon Pƙed 4 lety

      @@kingpopaul more like free people of sink, but then it sounds like people who never do the dishes

    • @lucabarrett2
      @lucabarrett2 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      The U in colour in English is not optional it's just a regional difference between those in America and those in the rest of the English speaking world

  • @natethenoble909
    @natethenoble909 Pƙed 4 lety +59

    Names to remember for later:
    Andre Rigaud
    Petion
    Dessalines
    Boyer
    Henri Christophe
    Leclerc
    Napoleon
    Toussaint
    Pretty sure that you guys aren't even going to have enough time to dedicate portraits for all of these people.

  • @seelcudoom1
    @seelcudoom1 Pƙed 4 lety +139

    one small issue is the mention of the "goddess of love", haitan vodou is monotheistic, there is only Bondye, who is considered supreme but also unreachable, the loa, while revered and served, are explicitly not gods, the closest concept Christianity has to them would be saints or archangels, who the loa are sometimes synchronized with

    • @danilooliveira6580
      @danilooliveira6580 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      so it sounds like a similar syncretism that happened in brazil, where african slaves followed African religions masked as Christianity. but with time they started to mix into their own thing, ubanda.

    • @Ex0dus111
      @Ex0dus111 Pƙed 4 lety +5

      King Spirits is a description I've heard.

    • @twiggyjali
      @twiggyjali Pƙed 4 lety +4

      I've heard otherwise, but hey, that's meltingpot for you. Papa Legba sends his regards.

    • @shrimpisdelicious
      @shrimpisdelicious Pƙed 4 lety +5

      I think the term for what you're describing here is "syncretism."

    • @capybaraRed
      @capybaraRed Pƙed 4 lety +2

      Orishas?

  • @justthatguy3760
    @justthatguy3760 Pƙed 4 lety +266

    When a you have a revolution against the most revolutionary country...

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 Pƙed 4 lety +39

      Like father like abused son?

    • @endengineer2441
      @endengineer2441 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      The revolution has begun

    • @WatcherCobalt
      @WatcherCobalt Pƙed 4 lety +5

      Uno reverse

    • @Fellknauel
      @Fellknauel Pƙed 4 lety +25

      no, no, they are having a revolution against the guys having a revolution against the guys having a revolution against the guys having a revolution against the guys having a revolution against the guys having a revolution against the most revolutionary country. try to follow, won't you?

    • @justanotherweirdhumanbeing6862
      @justanotherweirdhumanbeing6862 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      well well well, how the turntables...

  • @meleileen2960
    @meleileen2960 Pƙed 4 lety +71

    Where was this video when I was confused during AP World History? That was so much easier to understand than the textbook explanation, though it's too late to necessarily help my grades, thank you for the amazing video!

  • @robertwalpole360
    @robertwalpole360 Pƙed 4 lety +92

    2:15 Ne suis-je pas ton frĂšre?
    Non, car je suis Walpole.

  • @reidwallace4258
    @reidwallace4258 Pƙed 4 lety +122

    There are very few times in history you get to be wholeheartedly on the side of people waving cane knives around... Its nice when they come up.

    • @heli0s101
      @heli0s101 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      Which times are those

    • @KingofAwesomness14
      @KingofAwesomness14 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      to there are more times then few, french revolution was easily one of em.

    • @reidwallace4258
      @reidwallace4258 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      @@heli0s101 Lets see here, we have this time, where a bunch of people had taken steps toward rights multiple times only to have them snatched away with violence once again, and took up arms over it. The french revolution started off fairly justifiable, it quickly spiralled outta control to be fair, and those wern't cane knives, but same spirit... And then your into the long list of slave revolts that didn't go as well as Haiti...
      Honestly, if your not enslaved you need some fairly extreme justifications for armed rebellion and wide scale murder, but when it comes to justifications for murdering a bunch of people ,'they enslaved me and my people' is like, a really good one.

    • @bunny9286
      @bunny9286 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      Sadly this situation is about to get a whole lot more complex, and the people waving cane knives around are about to star waving them at each other. It's called a Revolution because it was born of revolutionnary ideology, but it was more of a multi-sided decade and a half long civil war.

    • @Inoffensive_name
      @Inoffensive_name Pƙed 4 lety +4

      @@heli0s101 When garbage excuses for human beings hold a man's freedom hostage. When a country built on revolution would deny liberty to their fellow man. Steel your soul cousin, because it may be us taking up our cane knives not too far into the future.
      Our maybe you'll be one of those with a cane knife in his treacherous heart before the end. Maybe you made that comment because you don't believe in human revolution. Maybe you're my enemy.

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan Pƙed 4 lety +26

    "White colonials utterly refusing to implement moderate reforms" is a common theme in history lol. The reversal too: Moderates refusing to implement nor support reforms.

  • @haitiancreolewithluciano
    @haitiancreolewithluciano Pƙed 4 lety +149

    Our history is awesome! First free black people 🇭đŸ‡č🇭đŸ‡č🇭đŸ‡č🇭đŸ‡č By the way, we speak a wonderful language as well: Haitian Creole (I teach it on my channel). Anyways, glad you guys decided to narrate our story I’m such a fun and precise way. Thanks!!!

    • @BigReggii
      @BigReggii Pƙed 3 lety +3

      Mon fƕe

    • @sjappiyah4071
      @sjappiyah4071 Pƙed 3 lety +3

      ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

    • @omarcitonunez5770
      @omarcitonunez5770 Pƙed 3 lety +12

      As a dominican (your neighbor) I agree that this history is amazing, and I really want to learn Haitian creole and French someday so I can understand my fellow islanders, much love from the DR my haitian friend ❀

    • @0816M3RC
      @0816M3RC Pƙed 2 lety

      What is so awesome about dead children?

    • @frozenfire2517
      @frozenfire2517 Pƙed 2 lety +6

      @@0816M3RC Don't be obtuse. He's proud of the fact Haiti freed themselves from slavery and oppression and here you are playing semantics.

  • @JonathanGallodajay
    @JonathanGallodajay Pƙed 4 lety +71

    Ok, I want this to be the next HBO show.

    • @cisco3111
      @cisco3111 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      If they did I'm sure there would be a huge backlash on the internet from those who'll say its SJW/Anti White propaganda or some other drivel.

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 Pƙed 4 lety +7

      Also this series should be in French. I wonder if France or Haiti have done a series or a movie on this

    • @MrSam1er
      @MrSam1er Pƙed 4 lety +3

      @@cisco3111 Well, for once it wouldn't be "blackwashing" history, as it is literally history of the black people

    • @JonathanGallodajay
      @JonathanGallodajay Pƙed 4 lety +3

      @@cisco3111 That's okay. Whatever rocks their world as long as great content is shared and nobody is hurt ✹

    • @dylanrodrigues
      @dylanrodrigues Pƙed 4 lety +4

      I want to see this depicted to but it's gonna immense backlash from the type of people who get offended by "Dear White People." It's too much of a touchy topic, especially in the wrong hands.

  • @GoErikTheRed
    @GoErikTheRed Pƙed 4 lety +19

    That ending reads like an intro to one of the old the old Total War games.
    "The slaves picked up their cane knives, and made ready for war."

  • @cowit1679
    @cowit1679 Pƙed 4 lety +41

    Highly recoomend listening to Mike Duncan's revolutions podcast on the french revolution while these are being made.

    • @chaoslord4831
      @chaoslord4831 Pƙed 4 lety +9

      or just listen to his series on the Haitian revolution itself.

    • @adamlavoie4524
      @adamlavoie4524 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      It is a fantastic recount that got much further into the detail of this period.

  • @ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758

    Can we just talk about how badass that last scene is, the blood oath to the goddess of love for freedom, over a fire on a boiling august night, chills

    • @videoguy640
      @videoguy640 Pƙed 4 lety +10

      We need a movie

    • @Madhattersinjeans
      @Madhattersinjeans Pƙed 4 lety

      Man speaks sacred words by a campfire in a hot country.
      Not exactly a unique occurance.

    • @wasneeplus
      @wasneeplus Pƙed 4 lety

      Sure we can talk about that: go ahead, what do you want to say on the matter?

  • @davidschaftenaar6530
    @davidschaftenaar6530 Pƙed 4 lety +14

    Could you do an Extra History on how Thailand was never colonized/opium-warred by any of the colonial powers? It's one of only three non-European nations that managed to dodge the bullet entirely - and I get the sense that it was a matter of skill and God-tier diplomacy rather than luck or nobody wanting it (no offense, Japan, Ethiopia).

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 Pƙed 4 lety +18

    Important work, providing a historical framework for understanding the validity of various human rights movements. Great job.

  • @capnfungi7875
    @capnfungi7875 Pƙed 4 lety +9

    The next can't come soon enough. Also, you should do one on the Hussite wars, I love that part of history, and I think a really cool and interesting series could be made out of it!

  • @Tylerhicks2
    @Tylerhicks2 Pƙed 4 lety +115

    Ahhh, revolutions....one of the most interesting events in history, along side the world wars.

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro Pƙed 4 lety +10

    I super appreciate you guys turning the chaos that is this time period in this specific place into a very watchable video this is actually surprisingly easy to follow it is no small feat and shows your prowess at this particular art form all the props in the world to you EC team!

  • @abcdef27669
    @abcdef27669 Pƙed 4 lety +53

    "Let's drink blood in the honor of the Goddess of Love... And now to War, fellow comrades!"
    Probably that was the only occasion of mankind history when the blood drinking guys were fighting for a good cause.

    • @magnemoe1
      @magnemoe1 Pƙed 4 lety +6

      True, or rather the others was pre history at least the looser side was.
      However drinking blood for the god of war makes more logical sense before an major battle.

    • @yotubeification
      @yotubeification Pƙed 4 lety +16

      @@magnemoe1 I dunno. If you are enslaved and see the suffering of family and friends for generations on end. One could argue to fight for love is appropriate.

    • @DomenBremecXCVI
      @DomenBremecXCVI Pƙed 4 lety +1

      ​@@magnemoe1 Who's more likely to protect you in war,? Someone who only has love to give or someone who's there just to fight?

    • @IgorMgtowandVideoGames
      @IgorMgtowandVideoGames Pƙed 4 lety

      *Honour

    • @christopherwoodbury7520
      @christopherwoodbury7520 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      @@DomenBremecXCVI The key is to get the crazy people on your side and point them at your enemies.

  • @christiansupple1644
    @christiansupple1644 Pƙed 4 lety +43

    I'm so proud to be related to Marquis de Lafayette

    • @BlakLite15
      @BlakLite15 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      I'm so proud to have graduated from the college named after him.

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Im proud to be a descendant of French Huguenots from his part of France.

    • @KBV1497
      @KBV1497 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      He's not well liked in France because he betrayed the Jacobins and tried to put the king back on the throne no?

    • @cc-rz4ts
      @cc-rz4ts Pƙed 4 lety +7

      @@KBV1497 Well its a weird relationship, like we recognise he did good, but its like he never really went full revolution so being a moderate is not really well remenbered in France

    • @TheFiresloth
      @TheFiresloth Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@KBV1497 : It's more that the king betrayed the constitutional monarchy, and after this he had cold feet about a total republic.

  • @arcraventree
    @arcraventree Pƙed 4 lety +8

    Great series so far! I’ve been studying the Haitian Revolution more closely as it’s a big reason I exist. My maternal grandfather’s family were originally grand-blancs (😅 awkward...) and petit-blancs who left Haiti during the revolution for Virginia and New Orleans and stayed there once Louisiana was transferred to the US.

  • @mouseluva
    @mouseluva Pƙed 4 lety +6

    Thanks for the disclaimer on inability to cover depth due to time restrictions! It encourages me to do my own research and not to assume I've 'done' this subject and know most of what I should about it.

  • @TheGprinziv
    @TheGprinziv Pƙed 4 lety +18

    "Revolutionary Politics, in other words, is about to resemble a bag full of cats on espresso."
    This line is the magnum opus of the entire Extra History series.

  • @Raccoon-pz6wf
    @Raccoon-pz6wf Pƙed 4 lety +96

    Who else been waiting for this

    • @ulisesjorge
      @ulisesjorge Pƙed 4 lety +5

      I've been refreshing my feed all morning...

    • @andyzhao5282
      @andyzhao5282 Pƙed 4 lety +11

      yes comrade

    • @Udontkno7
      @Udontkno7 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Me! My 4th great grandma was an free Haitian of color, and she left Haiti in the middle of the revolution to Jamaica.

    • @pinheadlarry1977
      @pinheadlarry1977 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Hey papa stalin

    • @thomaseasley2938
      @thomaseasley2938 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      Hol up, aren’t you supposed to be dead

  • @TheFiresloth
    @TheFiresloth Pƙed 4 lety +31

    1:25 It's nice to know they were free to sink.

  • @capybaraRed
    @capybaraRed Pƙed 4 lety +12

    If this doesn't show us how class always prevails over race, than I don't know what will.

  • @sp0okyboots103
    @sp0okyboots103 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    This channel is the reason I'm so into history now...

  • @joedrumm5239
    @joedrumm5239 Pƙed 4 lety +4

    If you want some specifics on the reforms (who's-who) and how things happened in France, check out oversimplified. They did a French revolution series that was very good!

  • @rafisanders
    @rafisanders Pƙed 4 lety +40

    Dude of course things went nuts. It's the French revolution

  • @thecreepoid901
    @thecreepoid901 Pƙed 4 lety +11

    Hope that you guys go into abit more detail on Vodun in yhe next video! I know that Ougan, the loa of fire and war, was one spirit deeply associated with the uprising, and not surprised to hear that Erzulie would be as well, considering how absolutely mama bear the loa of love and motherhood can be.

  • @paulomiguelperez4100
    @paulomiguelperez4100 Pƙed 4 lety +85

    Please do a Philippine revolution series. PLEASE PLEASE. people in the Philippines are slowly forgetting our roots. (colonialism is still here đŸ˜©)

    • @twiggyjali
      @twiggyjali Pƙed 4 lety

      Paulo Miguel Perez Yes, second this notion!!

    • @FF-ds9xw
      @FF-ds9xw Pƙed 4 lety

      Up my man

    • @skyes4552
      @skyes4552 Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Or The Philippine-American War

    • @paulomiguelperez4100
      @paulomiguelperez4100 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      Actually, the Philippine Revolution and Filipino-American war is inter-connected and is a good thing to share.

    • @adobotravels
      @adobotravels Pƙed 4 lety

      wala na to...

  • @gentlemandog4985
    @gentlemandog4985 Pƙed 4 lety +6

    2:25 "Hold on, that man pulled a Michael Jackson!"

  • @seriousbichon1595
    @seriousbichon1595 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    I just started reading "The Effluent Engine" around the time you started putting this out, so your timing was impeccable. By the way, go read the Effluent Engine.

  • @someguy1559
    @someguy1559 Pƙed 4 lety +14

    For a very detailed account of the Haitian revolution hit up the Revolutions podcast. They are all pretty good though the Haitian and Mexican Revolutions were the most interesting in the series imo

  • @yaragi
    @yaragi Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Excellent work dudes! We really enjoy your work - thank you.

  • @brookerickettson4950
    @brookerickettson4950 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    Your videos are the best! I’ve learned so much more from them then during school dedicated history classes or history covered as part of non history classes for context and background such for art, and French courses!
    You have a talent (and extreme research skills) needed to tease out narratives that make sense, even from convoluted messes!! Which makes the history come alive!
    You probably have an eternity of ideas in mind to cover in future video series, but maybe someday you can look into doing a few ( more? Wendigo and Iroquois were fantastic!) videos on the native Americans vs The US government, in confrontations like Wounded Knee, or the many (many, many) treaties formed and subsequently ignored? The history of natives and whites is long and tangled, and could easily be divided by events ( like big battles, or movements like the ghost dance), or focus by region and describe the conflict with settlers, and retreating march into smaller territories. Their hero’s and chiefs, like Crazy Horse, Red Jacket, and Sitting Bull are other topics to focus on !
    Again, just a direction to head in if you ever need inspiration!
    Thanks again for all your videos!!

  • @jamcdonald120
    @jamcdonald120 Pƙed 4 lety +41

    Has gradual abilition ever actually been tried/worked?

    • @keraatkins7833
      @keraatkins7833 Pƙed 4 lety +25

      jamcdonald120 in Brazil but even they racial issues

    • @user-wx9nf5gu8v
      @user-wx9nf5gu8v Pƙed 4 lety

      Depending on how you slice it, Russia 1861 can be an example.

    • @KonradSeverinHilstad
      @KonradSeverinHilstad Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Britain is probably the best example. They finished paying off their debts a few years ago, iirc. As someone else mentioned, Brazil. Also it happened in Russia, sort of (with the process leading to the freeing of the serfs). There probably are other examples, but those are what I recall at the top of my head.

    • @abcdef27669
      @abcdef27669 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      It worked relatively well in Brazil. We got almost a century to free all the slaves, but we didn't need a civil war or a convoluted revolution, like USA or Haiti.
      Also, when the Abolition Law was proclaimed in 1888, only 5% of the black people of Brazil were slaves. The majority was liberated during the 1870 decade.

    • @lucas9269
      @lucas9269 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      the process of abolition of slavery in Brazil failed miserably and created the wealth gap and the favelas

  • @virus73
    @virus73 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Been really excited for this next installment!

  • @ApplePi3.1415
    @ApplePi3.1415 Pƙed 4 lety +7

    “Lafayette”
    *intense listening*

  • @K9TheFirst1
    @K9TheFirst1 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    I hope you guys do a full series on the French Revolution someday. This series is a decent primer for it.

  • @kingofflamingos4344
    @kingofflamingos4344 Pƙed 4 lety +78

    Not gonna lie this kinda sound like a race war mixed with a class war

  • @Pannington
    @Pannington Pƙed 4 lety +3

    I love these videos so much

  • @austinhornbeck5060
    @austinhornbeck5060 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    Did you guys listen to Mike Duncan's Revolution series, the Haitian Revolution to influence the narrative for this series? Seems at least you guys were using similar sources. Fascinating to say the least. I'm always down for some Haitian Revolution, its such a fascinating topic.

    • @Polynice20
      @Polynice20 Pƙed 4 lety +1

      I'm Haitian born and I was actually very impressed with Mike Duncan podcast about the Haitian revolution overall. Although some of his opinions I disagreed with but he did a good job explaining it in depth.

  • @mexicanmapper5064
    @mexicanmapper5064 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Great stuff i love these types of videos

  • @yoavzack
    @yoavzack Pƙed 4 lety +7

    I knew I was learning history when i was listening to Hamilton all day!

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. Pƙed 4 lety +3

    There are way too many great videos about history uploaded this weekend. :)
    I love that you strive to present the Haitian Revolution in all of its complexity while acknowledging that it's hard to do in a bunch of short videos. BTW the goddess (or loa, a concept that as I understand is more akin to a spirit) mentioned near the end was Erzulie or EzilĂ­ Dantor, right?

  • @lukethompson797
    @lukethompson797 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Here from Barbados again but this was anything left than straightforward but hard fought and it had great leadership and a strong strategic advantage.

  • @morganblack9326
    @morganblack9326 Pƙed 2 měsĂ­ci

    This was sooooo good!!!!

  • @Zogerpogger
    @Zogerpogger Pƙed 3 lety +1

    I recommend Revolutions Podcast, for those who want to learn more. He did a series on Haiti.

  • @vkaivos
    @vkaivos Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Great video

  • @manuj2868
    @manuj2868 Pƙed 4 lety +4

    You guys should definitely make one or more episodes on the Peaky Blinders, a real historical gang in England of which the show is based on.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    A brilliant insight into rebellion.

  • @coolground
    @coolground Pƙed 4 lety +4

    1:25 it's "Gens de Couleur Libres"

  • @Elsneakakaze
    @Elsneakakaze Pƙed 4 lety +14

    I knew OJ was an amazing football player but i never knew he freed the slaves in haiti.

  • @ScaerieTale
    @ScaerieTale Pƙed rokem

    "A bag full of cats on espresso" Hahaha that's definitely a mental image I will never get out of my head now

  • @Mikister2012
    @Mikister2012 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    Wow, I just watched part 1 moments ago!

  • @nathanishungryanimations7206

    I love binging these

  • @charlieforster9910
    @charlieforster9910 Pƙed 4 lety

    it is a good thing that you are teaching people this because in Britain we rarely learn this in history

  • @tomgloyeski1391
    @tomgloyeski1391 Pƙed 4 lety +79

    Can you do some episodes of the Russian revolution

    • @duruarute5445
      @duruarute5445 Pƙed 4 lety +8

      you have to be a patreon to influence the theme of the episodes

    • @CatholicWeeb
      @CatholicWeeb Pƙed 4 lety +3

      Democracy needs money!

    • @oscarstrokosz2986
      @oscarstrokosz2986 Pƙed 4 lety

      I'd love an comprehensive on the civil war tbh. I don't trust many anarchists or Leninists to be completely honest or objective when it comes to the souring of relationships

    • @safe-keeper1042
      @safe-keeper1042 Pƙed 4 lety

      Haven't they already?

    • @Mixer2904
      @Mixer2904 Pƙed 4 lety

      you have to pay them to do the episode you want

  • @frantzwidnyjoseph3571
    @frantzwidnyjoseph3571 Pƙed 3 lety +2

    4:56
    Yes they did and they got decorated because most of them survived. For the american people, it was a helping hand from the big whites french in the colony
    "Maronnage" is a great side of this particular section but left out. Slaves started to escape plantations in a way that would become noticeable.
    That was a big gesture of rebellion and a big step to freedom.
    But this is great stuff. The political process is well covered.

  • @fritoss3437
    @fritoss3437 Pƙed 4 lety +6

    After you can do acadian deportation please ?
    And cool vidéo i love the série

  • @Atroposian
    @Atroposian Pƙed 4 lety

    LOVING this!

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Pƙed 3 lety +1

    For freedom, dignity, respect, courage, admiration, decipline, and determination

  • @improvise9840
    @improvise9840 Pƙed 4 lety +10

    I stayed awake at 2:30 AM specifically to watch this at it's release

  • @mattjennings101
    @mattjennings101 Pƙed 2 lety

    Revolutions Podcast for anyone looking for a more in depth overview of the Haitian Revolution. The details are fascinating

  • @andyjay729
    @andyjay729 Pƙed 4 lety +2

    2:40 France and Hai--sorry, forgot it was still Saint-Domingue at this point--look like puzzle pieces.

  • @BFA125
    @BFA125 Pƙed 2 lety

    Hello I love your videos. Can you please do the boer wars. I’d love to see it

  • @whisperingwhiskerss4877
    @whisperingwhiskerss4877 Pƙed 3 lety

    Beautiful

  • @sahteekrem
    @sahteekrem Pƙed 4 lety

    Bravissimo, guys. Luv ya.

  • @jaidenmartin6995
    @jaidenmartin6995 Pƙed 4 lety +18

    Voodoos have ONE god. The rest are Loa (spirits).

    • @oceanberserker
      @oceanberserker Pƙed 4 lety +2

      And while we're on the subject, didn't they kick this off with a sacrifice to Ogun, the Loa of war, rather than the Loa of love? Just curious.

    • @Fellknauel
      @Fellknauel Pƙed 4 lety +2

      @@oceanberserker as stated in the video, these events are mostly apocryphal, so I wouldn't be surprised if both versions of the story exist.

    • @oceanberserker
      @oceanberserker Pƙed 4 lety +1

      @@Fellknauel Fair point. Although, logically speaking, it would make more sense to call on a spirit of war and conflict for good fortune in violent workings. Unless of course, said Loa of love pulled double - shift as a Loa of war.

    • @Ex0dus111
      @Ex0dus111 Pƙed 4 lety

      Ogun is the Loa of war? So the Loa's are the same as the Brazilian Orixas?

    • @oceanberserker
      @oceanberserker Pƙed 4 lety

      @@Ex0dus111 Kinda - sorta. The best way to think of the spirits in the various faiths of the African Diaspora is that they are cousins to one another, if that makes any sense.

  • @vuhdoo7486
    @vuhdoo7486 Pƙed 4 lety +5

    2:42 ff Describes perfectly how I feel current political decisions are made.

  • @ikebeckman1074
    @ikebeckman1074 Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

    As well as the delivery of messages, the interior of a carriage might also have provided an illusion of secrecy for the big whites while the driver might have their back to the same plank of wood that a rider had. Perfect eavesdropping location

  • @EmpireofTheWaves
    @EmpireofTheWaves Pƙed 4 lety +6

    “Toussaint a slave with vision lick back Napoleon battalion and the first Black Republic born Toussaint de thorn to de French Toussaint de Beacon of de Haitian Revolution”

  • @JaceGem
    @JaceGem Pƙed 3 lety

    0:06 *sounds of "What'd I Miss" in the distance*

  • @ebinshumate3132
    @ebinshumate3132 Pƙed 4 lety

    OH BOY HERE WE GO

  • @krankarvolund7771
    @krankarvolund7771 Pƙed 4 lety +8

    1:26 It's "couleur" not "couler". Couler mean "sink", so you wrote the"free people of sinking" XD

    • @ArkadiBolschek
      @ArkadiBolschek Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Their right to sink shall not be infringed upon!

  • @garthvader9916
    @garthvader9916 Pƙed 3 lety

    'They sent word back to the colony, to prevent word from spreading.' Clever. đŸ€ŠđŸ‘đŸ‘

  • @dracont11
    @dracont11 Pƙed 4 lety

    Guys. Can you make an episode about the war of Arauco? Ia a really good topic and is one of the few times my country appears in old history

  • @DavidChipman
    @DavidChipman Pƙed 4 lety +15

    Please do the French Revolution itself. You mention it here being a driver of thigns happening in Haiti.

    • @BlueflameKing1
      @BlueflameKing1 Pƙed 4 lety +12

      They need more than 6 episodes for that dumpster fire.

    • @internetperson3436
      @internetperson3436 Pƙed 4 lety +2

      @@BlueflameKing1 justinaian had 12 bro

    • @sarasamaletdin4574
      @sarasamaletdin4574 Pƙed 4 lety +4

      Sajah, those series were voted separately.
      I think French Revolution could be great anyway.

    • @petergray2712
      @petergray2712 Pƙed 4 lety

      @@BlueflameKing1 More like "Do we have the next six months free?"

    • @adamlavoie4524
      @adamlavoie4524 Pƙed 4 lety

      You always have Mike Duncan's 55 episode arc on the french revolution on his podcast revolutions

  • @Shady22
    @Shady22 Pƙed 4 lety +8

    Yess there’s more

  • @lorrainebennett9804
    @lorrainebennett9804 Pƙed 4 lety +1

    cool vid

  • @BearsThatCare
    @BearsThatCare Pƙed 3 měsĂ­ci

    That ending was so hard. Long live the revolution!

  • @szasaalmencion5721
    @szasaalmencion5721 Pƙed 4 lety

    A 2020 video?! CONGRATS!!!

  • @jacobbabson6786
    @jacobbabson6786 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR AMERICA’S FAVORITE FIGHTING FRENCH MAN

  • @MuhammadAli-wo8pj
    @MuhammadAli-wo8pj Pƙed 4 lety +1

    I was wondering, the guy mentioned at the beginning of the first video, the captured warrior, what happened to him? Is he the rebel leader now?

  • @aoe9015
    @aoe9015 Pƙed 2 lety

    learn about this in school, pretty interesting

  • @AYToaster
    @AYToaster Pƙed 4 lety +2

    Everyone gangster till the sugar canes start shouting.

  • @benlittle5543
    @benlittle5543 Pƙed 4 lety +3

    I had to pause and look up "broken by the wheel" ouch