ABSTRACT
When Toussaint’s successor Dessalines proclaimed the independence of Saint-Domingue from France, the after-shock of this traumatic social upheaval produced both local and distant consequences of gigantic proportions, as suspected. The repercussions of the Haitian Revolution were felt across a wide spectrum of economic, political, social, and cultural arenas throughout the whole island, as well as throughout the Caribbean region and beyond. Some Dominican history scholars have made the observation that the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue can be more properly described as the classic model of an all-encompassing social revolution. 1
