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Although the Haiti revolution only rarely emerges from the oversized shadow of the French Revolution in the Eurocentric consciousness, it nevertheless marks a turning point of world-historical importance. As the only successful slave revolution in history, it put a bloody end to European rule on the Antilles island and created the second independent state in the New World after the USA. Based on the diary of a British officer who took part in the battles for the Pearl of the...

Although the Haiti revolution only rarely emerges from the oversized shadow of the French Revolution in the Eurocentric consciousness, it nevertheless marks a turning point of world-historical importance. As the only successful slave revolution in history, it put a bloody end to European rule on the Antilles island and created the second independent state in the New World after the USA. Based on the diary of a British officer who took part in the battles for the Pearl of the...

In the spring of 1728 the international situation was characterized by alarming instability, so that many contemporaries expected the outbreak of a pan-European war. Problems such as the question of the suspension of the Imperial Ostend Company, the restitution of Gibraltar and Menorca, and the establishment of a Spanish secundogeniture in Italy turned Europe into a powder keg about to explode. Nevertheless, in June 1728, the diplomats of Europe gathered in the French episcopal city of Soissons to negotiate a...