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Did a quick search but is that post really talking about the abolition of slavery and not mentioning Haiti once?
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it focuses entirely on britain, so that's understandable
Don't think it is, as the revolt predates British decisions by a while, and 'there is now potentially a country which will materially support slave revolts' changes the economic risks a bit.
Slave revolts were basically constant, and I think it would have been easy for contemporary British to blame the success of the Haitian revolt on the uselessness of the French, not that slavery was doomed because the slaves now had a "win".
Brazil had horrific slave revolts and didn't abolish slavery until the late 1880s.
Yeah. The Haitian revolution was absolutely a high point of postcolonial Caribbean history, but the resulting state wasn't exactly able to project power and export their revolution through material support. It gave slavers a reason to double down on repression, but outside of Haiti itself it's a propaganda win more than a change in the scales.