The Only Slave Revolt in History That Created a Nation

In 1791, enslaved people on the French colony of Saint-Domingue did something that had never been done before in human history. They rose up, fought back, and refused to stop. What followed was twelve years of war against the most powerful military force on earth -- Napoleon Bonaparte's army -- and against every colonial power that tried to crush them. They won. The Haitian Revolution is the only successful slave revolt in history that resulted in the creation of an independent nation. It forced Napoleon to abandon his dreams of an American empire, directly leading to the Louisiana Purchase that doubled the size of the United States. It sent shockwaves through every slave-holding society in the Americas and terrified colonial powers for decades. In this documentary, we tell the full story -- from the first sparks of rebellion in the mountains of Saint-Domingue, through the brutal wars against France, Britain, and Spain, to the declaration of Haitian independence on the first of January 1804. This is the revolution that changed the map of America. And almost nobody talks about it.