La revolución haitiana y la primera abolición de la esclavitudThe Haitian Revoluction and the First Abolition of Slavery

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Given that the work presented below has a clear narrative dimension, the «abstract» will be more characteristic of this. In 1791 in Saint Domingue, or Haiti, a territory that was a French colony that produced a lot of wealth, there was a rebellion of slaves: men and women. The main product of this territory was cane sugar. Called «white gold» and through it, traffic in goods and people moved the wealth of European nations. In this case, of France. It seems that the Arab slave owners spread sugar plantations around the Mediterranean, Southern Europe and North Africa, (Sicily, Cyprus, Malta, Spain and Morocco...) since the 8th century when the Muslim lords conquered parts of this region in the following century. Anthropologist Sidney Mintz said that «sugar followed the Koran»